Four grand.

[brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange]

Four grand. That's what it costs a random kid with a laptop to run a voice phishing operation that used to require a call center, a phisher, and a developer. ATHR packages all of it into one dashboard, tosses in AI voice agents that can ad-lib when a victim gets suspicious, and ships with ready-made lures for Google, Microsoft, Coinbase, Binance, and a few more.

CyberCrime has a SaaS model now, complete with commission splits (10% of profits back to the vendor). The barrier to running a convincing vishing campaign just collapsed, and your awareness training still says "watch for typos in the email."

️ AI agents handle objections live, so the "support rep" sounds real because they are, functionally, reasoning
Lure emails are customized per target with accurate IPs, dates, locations, and pass authentication checks
Eight brands supported out of the box, crypto exchanges heavily represented for obvious reasons
️ Stop looking at email indicators, start modeling normal communication patterns and flag the anomalies

If your vishing defense is a 20-minute annual training video and a phish-report button, you're bringing a knife to a drone fight. The humans on the other end of the phone aren't humans anymore, and they don't get tired, rattled, or bored on calls.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-athr-vishing-platform-uses-ai-voice-agents-for-automated-attacks/

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