Developing Personalized Training Material using AI Tools for Anti-phishing Cyber-security Awareness

The increasing availability of smart devices and seamless internet connectivity has led cyber criminals to continuously target mobile workers and commuters, aiming to steal their personal data or digital identities. The most popular methods of such attacks are phishing and spear phishing emails. With the advent of AI tools, phishing techniques are expected to become more sophisticated, making them more difficult for anti-phishing tools to detect and more personalized due to AI's ability to customize email content for specific victims. As a result, traditional anti-phishing training will soon become obsolete. Motivated by this gap, we propose a novel anti-phishing training intervention that focuses on personalized training for company employees. This approach involves automatically preparing personalized spear phishing emails for each employee using an AI tool. This method helps employees better identify potential spear phishing emails in the future and understand the severity of the personal information exposed on their social media profiles.