AI leads to a new phishing threat every 42 seconds

AI-powered phishing campaigns are bypassing traditional defenses as threat actors flood inboxes with polymorphic phishing, spoofed brands, and new malware families. New research from the Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) has tracked one malicious email every 42 seconds. Many of these were part of polymorphic phishing attacks that mutate in real-time in order to bypass traditional filters. AI has given threat actors the power to automate malware development, scale attacks across industries, and personalize phishing messages with surgical precision. These evolving threats are increasingly able to bypass traditional email filters, highlighting the failure of perimeter-only defenses and the need for… [Continue Reading]