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UID:pretalx-hf2026-MBFZK3@cfp.hackfest.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Ancient cons still work. Technology just made them faster\, che
 aper\, and easier to scale. What hasn’t changed is the logic that makes 
 them work.\n\nTreating deception as a “spot the artifact” game has fai
 led. Bad grammar\, foreign accents\, suspicious links\, strange senders\, 
 and even valid SSL certificates are all just surface cues that tell us not
 hing about whether the _request itself_ can be trusted. Attackers can use 
 machines to polish the presentation or leverage compromised trusted accoun
 ts to appear genuine.\n\nThe deeper problem is that both human judgment an
 d machine guardrails can be fooled by the same thing: a convincing request
  built on deceptive logic.\n\nUsing real-world attack recordings and examp
 les ranging from traditional social engineering to recent attacks against 
 AI agents\, we’ll examine how the same underlying attack logic can bypas
 s both human judgment and machine guardrails. We'll look beyond the indivi
 dual psychological tricks to the simple\, repeatable logic exploits that m
 ake them work.\n\nAttendees will leave with a practical way to recognize a
 nd dissect these attacks based not on how they look or how they arrive\, b
 ut on _what they are trying to make the target believe and do_.
DTSTAMP:20261014T063551Z
LOCATION:Social Engineering CTF (308AB)
SUMMARY:Scammers Keep Winning: Why Humans and AI Fall for the Same Hustles 
 - Alex Kasper
URL:https://cfp.hackfest.ca/hf2026/talk/MBFZK3/
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