AI Supercharges Business Email Compromise: Ex-FBI Explains

Business email compromise used to be easy to spot — bad grammar, awkward phrasing, obvious tells. Not anymore.

M.K. Palmore spent 22 years at the FBI, including leading its largest cyber investigative team, before moving into the private sector at Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud. In this clip, he breaks down how AI has changed the email scam playbook: attackers no longer need to write the exploit themselves — they let an LLM do it, complete with a convincingly human voice.