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SBIR Phase I: Counteracting Social Engineering Attacks with Honeypot LLM Chatbots — NSF Award to BEESAFE LABS, LLC (CA, $305,000)

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project lies in its potential to significantly reduce the economic and emotional harm caused by social engineering cyber-attacks, which manipulate trust to collectively defraud millions of Americans of tens of billions of dollars each year. Th

Award titleSBIR Phase I: Counteracting Social Engineering Attacks with Honeypot LLM Chatbots
Award ID2451800
AwardeeBEESAFE LABS, LLC
CitySAN DIEGO
StateCA
Amount obligated$305,000
Principal investigatorDaniel Spokoyny
ProgramSBIR Phase I
Start date10/01/2025
AbstractThe broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project lies in its potential to significantly reduce the economic and emotional harm caused by social engineering cyber-attacks, which manipulate trust to collectively defraud millions of Americans of tens of billions of dollars each year. The growing asymmetry in the cost of executing such attacks, which are conducted by organized crime and nation-state actors, versus defending against them has created a critical vuln
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