AI-Enabled Social Engineering Attacks are on the Rise

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With growing support from AI technologies, social engineering continued to be the most popular initial entry vector for cyberattacks in 2025.

Researchers

Throughout 2026, AI is probably going to play a major role in social engineering attacks.

 “Nowadays, deepfake voice, image, and video impersonation simply needs a few reference photos or audio seconds and very little experience.”

 “These capabilities are being used by criminals in a variety of attacks, such as for financial fraud by fabricating identification documents; convincing employees to share passwords, reset multi-factor authentication (MFA), or authorize remote access by impersonating IT or helpdesk personnel; and conducting extremely convincing CEO fraud by impersonating executives.

 “Throughout 2026, AI-driven social engineering activities are expected to grow dramatically and become the most common type of social engineering employed by attackers.”

 AI has already been routinely used by attackers to create phishing lures. Even if the attacker is not proficient in the target's language, generative AI methods enable threat actors to create realistic phishing emails free of mistakes.

Report

“Phishing efforts employed well-known companies and convincing lures, such as safe document downloads.”  “Attackers increasingly use AI-generated emails to make more polished, plausibly tailored messages at scale and to remove the mistakes that many people use to detect phishing. “Attackers provided victims with phony login pages for Google or OneDrive that were connected to their own domains using straightforward methods like verifying MX records. To reduce suspicion, victims were occasionally redirected to their actual inboxes once credentials were harvested.”

 

Note: To get a stress-free working environment, you can go for a specially designed tool, “PhishNext,” which provides specialized simulations of phishing attacks so that users can get used to such attacks and never become victims of such attacks.

 

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