AI-based honeypot to mitigate social engineering cyberattack

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, are configured to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• creating a generic virtualized human personality that is not associated with any human user;
• creating a specific virtualized human personality associated with a human user;
• receiving a first cyberattack message;
• determining whether the first cyberattack message is targeted to any human user;
• responding to the first cyberattack message with a first response message generated using the generic virtualized human personality in response to determining the first cyberattack message is not targeted to any human user;
• receiving a second cyberattack message;
• determining whether the second cyberattack message is targeted to any human user;
• and
• responding to the second cyberattack message with a second response message generated using the specific virtualized human personality in response to determining the second cyberattack message is targeted to the human user.

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory configured to store instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the instructions stored on the memory to perform operations comprising:
• generating a specific virtualized human personality associated with a human user;
• generating a generic virtualized human personality that is not associated with any human user;
• receiving an initial cyberattack message from a source;
• determining the initial cyberattack message is not targeted to any human user;
• generating an initial response message using the generic virtualized human personality in response to determining the initial cyberattack message is not targeted to any human user;
• sending the initial response message to the source;
• receiving a cyberattack message from the source;
• determining the cyberattack message is targeted to the human user;
• generating a response message using the specific virtualized human personality associated with the human user to contain a company status associated with the human user in response to determining the cyberattack message is targeted to the human user;
• and
• sending the response message to the source.