Evolution of Phishing Attacks: AI Agents in Cybersecurity Threats and Defense
Phishing 3.0 employs AI agents for multi-channel attacks, including deepfakes and personalized lures, while defenders adopt AI-driven strategies to preempt and counter these threats. The article highlights the shift from content-based to intent-based phishing and the growing reliance on AI for both attack and defense mechanisms.
Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the sender is no longer a person.
From Bad Content to Bad Intent to AI on Both Sides
Phishing 1.0 was bad
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