{"id":245435,"date":"2026-05-13T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/edge-26-ai-deepfakes-are-making-human-trust-the-weakest-cybersecurity-link-experts-warn-fresh-today-cutoday-info\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:05:08","slug":"edge-26-ai-deepfakes-are-making-human-trust-the-weakest-cybersecurity-link-experts-warn-fresh-today-cutoday-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/edge-26-ai-deepfakes-are-making-human-trust-the-weakest-cybersecurity-link-experts-warn-fresh-today-cutoday-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge 26: AI Deepfakes Are Making Human Trust The Weakest Cybersecurity Link, Experts Warn \/ Fresh Today \/ CUToday.info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cutoday.info\/Fresh-Today\/Edge-26-AI-Deepfakes-Are-Making-Human-Trust-The-Weakest-Cybersecurity-Link-Experts-Warn\">Edge 26: AI Deepfakes Are Making Human Trust The Weakest Cybersecurity Link, Experts Warn \/ Fresh Today \/ CUToday.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cutoday.info\/Fresh-Today\/Edge-26-AI-Deepfakes-Are-Making-Human-Trust-The-Weakest-Cybersecurity-Link-Experts-Warn\">https:\/\/www.cutoday.info\/Fresh-Today\/Edge-26-AI-Deepfakes-Are-Making-Human-Trust-The-Weakest-Cybersecurity-Link-Experts-Warn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 17:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cutoday.info\">www.cutoday.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Hal Pratt<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS\u2014Artificial intelligence is rapidly making cybercrime more convincing, more scalable and far more personal, according to cybersecurity experts speaking at the EDGE 26 Technology Conference here, where attendees were warned the greatest cyber risk facing organizations today is no longer technology itself, but increasingly sophisticated AI-powered social engineering attacks designed to manipulate human behavior.<\/p>\n<p>FC (L) and Jessica Barker<\/p>\n<p>During a session titled, \u201cYour Biggest Cyber Risk Isn\u2019t Technology: It\u2019s AI-Powered Manipulation,\u201d hacker and author FC and cybersecurity expert Jessica Barker said criminals are now able to create fake companies, synthetic identities, deepfake audio and realistic short-form videos within minutes using readily available AI tools, dramatically lowering the barrier for fraud schemes targeting businesses and consumers alike.<\/p>\n<p>The presenters stressed that victims of social engineering are not careless or unintelligent, but rather human beings vulnerable to emotional manipulation tactics specifically designed to trigger fear, urgency and trust.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of cybercrime, they noted, is social engineering. Social engineering, the presenters reminded, is where cyber criminals are using well-known psychological tricks and techniques to manipulate people to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download a malicious attachment appearing institution<\/li>\n<li>Send money to a fake recipient<\/li>\n<li>Provide sensitive, private information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The presenters emphasized that anyone being a victim of social engineering doesn&#8217;t mean they are dumb or careless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt simply means that we are human beings who need to have trust,\u201d FC stated&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cutoday.info\/Fresh-Today\/Edge-26-AI-Deepfakes-Are-Making-Human-Trust-The-Weakest-Cybersecurity-Link-Experts-Warn\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edge 26: AI Deepfakes Are Making Human Trust The Weakest Cybersecurity Link, Experts Warn \/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cutoday.info\/var\/ezdemo_site\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/cybercrime4\/1935273-1-eng-US\/Cybercrime_large.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,96],"class_list":["post-245435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-hackerexploit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245437,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245435\/revisions\/245437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}