The rise of adversarial AI threatens smaller organizations

Email remains a vital channel for business communications, but the availability of easy-to-use AI tools makes protecting the inbox a challenge as it's easier than ever for cybercriminals to launch sophisticated attacks. A new report from Abnormal Security charts the rise of adversarial AI which has seen a 54 percent year-on-year rise in business email compromise attacks. Vendor email compromise is up too, during any given week in 2024, organizations had, on average, a 70 percent chance of receiving at least one VEC attack -- an increase of more than 10 percent from 2023. Phishing remains the most common attack… [Continue Reading]