--- title: Turning the Tables on Phishers With 'ScamBuster' | daily.dev description: ScamBuster is an open source, AI-driven system that fights phishing by responding to scam emails using AI-generated victim personas, tricking attackers into... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/turning-the-tables-on-phishers-with-scambuster--ttj480vep twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Turning the Tables on Phishers With 'ScamBuster' | daily.dev og:description: ScamBuster is an open source, AI-driven system that fights phishing by responding to scam emails using AI-generated victim personas, tricking attackers into... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/turning-the-tables-on-phishers-with-scambuster--ttj480vep og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ttJ480VeP.png og:image:alt: Turning the Tables on Phishers With 'ScamBuster' og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Turning the Tables on Phishers With 'ScamBuster' **[Dark Reading](https://daily.dev/sources/dr)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ScamBuster is an open source, AI-driven system that fights phishing by responding to scam emails using AI-generated victim personas, tricking attackers into revealing financial details and infrastructure data. Built by Laurent Giovannoni of Filigran as a thesis project, it has been in production since November 2025 and will be formally unveiled at Black Hat USA 2026. The system uses LLM agents (defaulting to GPT-4o-mini) to maintain believable conversations, extract indicators like IBANs and payment domains, and export structured threat intelligence in STIX 2.1 and MISP formats. It self-learns which personas are most effective per scam type — the best persona outperforms the worst by 5.5x. The full codebase will be released under the MIT license on August 5, 2026, with planned support for vishing and smishing attacks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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