Spammers started using artificial intelligence
Security experts believe that graphic spam is the first time spammers use Artificial Intelligence technologies, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Analysts from Forrester Research have published a detailed report on this issue. They believe that with the advent of new models that use AI, it will be impossible to combat graphic spam with modern methods, because spammer neural networks learn on the go. They generate millions of letters that are different from each other, some of which - and, therefore, millions of copies - will break the filter anyway.
Here the situation is the same as in the CAPTCHA tests. A computer (in our case, an anti-spam filter) cannot read the text in graphical form, but a person (spam recipient) can. And graphic spam is not the only challenge we face.
Spammers have already begun to use various variations of graphics, strikethrough noisy images, audio and video files. If we start blocking each of these types of spam at the filter level, then we will fail. According to experts, you need to look at the root of the problem and deal with the fundamental properties of spam, such as links to third-party sites, because they are contained in almost every spam message.
One of the potentially successful ways to fight spam is social filtering, marking spam in real time by millions of users.
via Infoworld
Analysts from Forrester Research have published a detailed report on this issue. They believe that with the advent of new models that use AI, it will be impossible to combat graphic spam with modern methods, because spammer neural networks learn on the go. They generate millions of letters that are different from each other, some of which - and, therefore, millions of copies - will break the filter anyway.
Here the situation is the same as in the CAPTCHA tests. A computer (in our case, an anti-spam filter) cannot read the text in graphical form, but a person (spam recipient) can. And graphic spam is not the only challenge we face.
Spammers have already begun to use various variations of graphics, strikethrough noisy images, audio and video files. If we start blocking each of these types of spam at the filter level, then we will fail. According to experts, you need to look at the root of the problem and deal with the fundamental properties of spam, such as links to third-party sites, because they are contained in almost every spam message.
One of the potentially successful ways to fight spam is social filtering, marking spam in real time by millions of users.
via Infoworld