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Cyber attacks at companies in the region are piling up: AI make hackers more dangerous
Published on September 24, 2025
Pforzheim.So-called phishing emails are nothing new.Fraudsters try to send mails to as many companies as possible with fake business content.In the hope that an employee is good faith enough to open one of the attached files.The computer virus is thus installed.In the best case, he only draws a few personal data, in the worst case, he consumes the company completely paralyzed, as has recently happened to a company in the region again.What is new: the dimension that is possible with artificial intelligence when it comes to hacker attacks.IT expert Jean-Pierre Walter from Kämpfelbach knows that it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish fraud emails from real ones.
The Pforzheimer Stadtbau was lucky twice in misfortune: With a phishing email, fraudsters gave access to an employee's email account and sent from there