Episode 82 — Counter AI-Scaled Social Engineering: Phishing, Vishing, and Pretext Detection

 This episode teaches how AI scales social engineering by making messages more convincing, more personalized, and easier to generate at volume, which is exactly why SecAI+ includes scenarios that test your ability to spot and disrupt pretexts rather than simply telling users to “be careful.” You will connect AI-scaled phishing and vishing to practical indicators like timing, unusual requests, urgency cues, and mismatches between the request and normal business process, then shift to controls that reduce success even when a message is persuasive. We will cover process countermeasures such as verified call-back procedures, approval chains for payment and access changes, identity-aware authentication that does not depend on what someone says, and mailbox protections that reduce spoofing and malicious link delivery. You will also learn how to detect campaign patterns through telemetry, including spikes in lookalike domains, repeated themes across departments, and abnormal helpdesk requests, and how to respond with containment steps that preserve evidence while cutting off attacker momentum. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.