Lithuania Holds “No Shit, Sherlock” Summit on AI-Driven Fraud

Oh fantastic. Lithuania’s best and brightest have finally crawled out of their server rooms and vodka cabinets to announce that—wait for it—AI is being used for cyber fraud. Really? You wankers just figured that out? I’ve been watching these algorithmic shitweasels clone voices and generate fake nudes for months while you lot were busy patching Windows 95 systems and arguing about whose turn it is to refill the coffee machine.

So they held a conference. A fucking conference. With the glorious title: “Safe and Inclusive e-Society: How to Prepare for AI-Driven Cyber Fraud?” which translates to “How to Pretend We’re Doing Something While Actually Just Ordering Pastries and PowerPoint Templates.” Attendees included government drones, academic windbags, and private sector twats who bill €400 an hour to say “have you tried turning it off and on again?”

The big revelations? Deepfakes are scary. Social engineering works better with AI. Automated attacks are… automated. Jesus wept, my grandmother could’ve told you that, and she’s been dead for fifteen years. But sure, let’s have another working group about it. Let’s form a public-private partnership—that’s corporate-speak for “we’ll take your tax money and deliver fuck-all in return.” Let’s educate the users, because that always works. I’ve been telling users not to click on “prince_needs_help.exe” for twenty years and they still do it, but apparently a shiny leaflet will fix everything.

They’ve got their National Cyber Security Centre involved, which is about as useful as a chocolate firewall in July. They’re talking about balancing security with digital rights and inclusion. Translation: “We want to stop the bad guys but not so much that Karen can’t share her cat videos on fourteen different platforms.” And of course, international cooperation gets a mention, because why solve your own problems when you can form a committee with Estonia and wait for the EU to issue a strongly-worded directive in 2028?

The real kicker? They’re “preparing.” Not acting. Preparing. Like someone watching a flood coming and deciding to research the hydrological history of the region instead of getting a sandbag. Meanwhile, the scammers are out there using AI voice clones to empty pension accounts while these bureaucrats debate the proper font for their threat assessment reports.

Here’s the link if you enjoy pain: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/safe-and-inclusive-esociety-how.html

Anecdote: Some oxygen-thief in accounting got a call yesterday from what sounded like our CEO asking for emergency wire transfers to a “strategic blockchain initiative” in Nigeria. Sounded just like him, apparently. I gave them the same advice I always give: “Did you try verifying it with a phone call to his actual number?” Silence. Then: “But it sounded so real!” Yeah, and my arse sounds like a trumpet after a curry, but you don’t see me recording a jazz album. I told them the money’s gone, their job’s probably gone, and my give-a-fuck meter has been at zero since 1998. They cried. I had a biscuit.

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