An LLM Agent-based Framework for Whaling Countermeasures
This study addresses the growing threat of high-precision generative AI-powered whaling attacks targeting senior university personnel, for which existing defenses lack personalization and contextual awareness. The work proposes the first defense framework based on large language model (LLM) agents, which constructs individualized vulnerability profiles by mining publicly available information, identifies high-risk scenarios, and generates contextually coherent, interpretable, and personalized defensive strategies. By innovatively deploying LLM agents for whaling protection tailored to academic staff, the approach demonstrates in preliminary experiments its ability to produce realistic risk assessments and strategy explanations aligned with actual professional contexts. These findings validate the framework’s feasibility while also highlighting key challenges for real-world deployment.