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Give a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times
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The cybersecurity and phishing awareness outfit released the seventh edition of its Phishing Threat Trends report on Thursday, and it appears that the internet's legions of phishermen are turning to AI in more ways, and more often, than ever thanks to their widespread adoption of AI.
Key facts
- According to Microsoft, phishing campaigns involving AI lures are 4.5 times more effective than human-crafted ones
- Nearly 86 percent of phishing campaigns KnowBe4 threat researchers have picked up on in the past six months have involved some sort of use of AI, according to the report
- That number may be troubling enough, but it's how AI is being used that KnowBe4 points out is the biggest problem
- Automated reconnaissance enables attackers to comb through masses of information, extract target data, and feed that into AI-generated email lures
Summary
Give a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times; teach an AI to phish and it'll change the landscape, if KnowBe4's latest phishing trends report is accurate. Nearly 86 percent of phishing campaigns KnowBe4 threat researchers have picked up on in the past six months have involved some sort of use of AI, according to the report. That number may be troubling enough, but it's how AI is being used that KnowBe4 points out is the biggest problem.