Japan is now the most targeted country in the world for phishing scams.

 According to a study by Proofpoint, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, new email attacks targeting Japan are expected to explode around the end of 2024.



One of the reasons for this is that Proofpoint has eliminated the language barrier due to the much improved performance of its generative AI.

 In the past, most phishing scam e-mails were obviously in strange Japanese. For those without knowledge, creating Japanese sentences must have been that much more difficult. However, now that anyone can easily create Japanese sentences with generative AI, scam e-mails in natural Japanese abound, and it is no longer possible to tell them apart based on the unnaturalness of the sentences.

We must improve our digital literacy.

Reference https://l.smartnews.com/m-lpJC2GY/ciZKVW


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  1. Nonoko2025年6月4日 22:20

    This was the first time I learned that such a possibility exists as a disadvantage of generative AI.

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  2. Takashi Goto2025年6月5日 4:19

    Wow, that’s an unexpected result from the AI. Maybe we could actually develop a system to detect if an email was AI-generated for phishing scams.

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  3. Hiroto2025年6月5日 23:03

    It is very unfortunate that the adverse effects of the development of AI have reached such a point.

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