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Computer security researcher working on evaluations for LLMs' capability to attack hardware, software, and system users.

Personal page: https://fredheiding.com/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=BJnWJVQAAAAJ

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Fred Heiding

Computer security researcher working on evaluations for LLMs' capability to attack hardware, software, and system users.

Personal page: https://fredheiding.com/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=BJnWJVQAAAAJ

Jailbreaking AI models to Phish Elderly Victims

by Simon Lermen and Fred Heiding

TLDR: We worked with Reuters on an article and just released a paper on the impacts of AI scams on elderly people. Fred Heiding and I have been working for multiple years on studying how AI systems can be used for fraud or scams online. A few months ago, we...

Nov 18, 2025•17

Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns

by Simon Lermen, Fred Heiding, and Andrew Kao

TL;DR: We ran a human subject study on whether language models can successfully spear-phish people. We use AI agents built from GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to search the web for available information on a target and use this for highly personalized phishing messages. We achieved a click-through rate of...

Jan 3, 2025•81