Social Engineering in the Age of AI

AI in Social Engineering phishing attacks

AI has powered a new wave of phishing attacks, enabling cybercriminals to use simple prompts to enhance their social engineering tactics. Cybercriminals have used AI to take the sophistication of social engineering one step further.

It only takes an average of 21 seconds for someone to click on a phishing link and a further 28 for them to enter their credentials.

Our partner Egress, have produced a white paper guide for CISO’s titled Social engineering in the age of AI. 
Download this guide now to understand:

• How to detect advanced social engineering phishing attacks.
• The impact of AI on the phishing threat landscape.
• The social engineering tactics that cause people to fall victim.
• How cybercriminals are bypassing detection by native defences and secure email gateways.
• The social engineered phishing attacks targeting Microsoft 365 users.

See how cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging social engineering tactics:

There has been a 52% increase in attacks getting through SEGs.
19% of phishing attacks rely solely on social engineering.

Social Engineering in the age of AI is a must read for any IT security professional concerned with the impact of AI will have on phishing attacks targeting employee inboxes.

Download this guide to understand how AI has increased the scale and sophistication of phishing attacks.

You can read more on phishing solutions here.