The paper proposes Synthetic Trust Attacks (STAs) as a formal threat model with an eight-stage attack chain (STAM) that shifts defense focus from detecting synthetic media to protecting human decision processes in social engineering.
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Synthetic Trust Attacks: Modeling How Generative AI Manipulates Human Decisions in Social Engineering Fraud
The paper proposes Synthetic Trust Attacks (STAs) as a formal threat model with an eight-stage attack chain (STAM) that shifts defense focus from detecting synthetic media to protecting human decision processes in social engineering.