![AI-Powered Phishing: Why Traditional Email Security Is No Longer Enough [Guest Post]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZwBH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8ee43b5-bd21-4ab4-9342-0e63b5479edd_1672x941.png "AI-Powered Phishing: Why Traditional Email Security Is No Longer Enough [Guest Post]")
AI-powered phishing is making social engineering cheaper, faster, and far more convincing, with generative AI enabling realistic emails, deepfake audio, and video that can bypass traditional tells. Real-world cases like the Arup wire-fraud incident show why organizations must rely on phishing-resistant MFA, out-of-band verification, and behavioral detection instead of grammar-based spotting. #Arup #WormGPT #KawaiiGPT #FIDO2
Keypoints
- Generative AI has dramatically increased the speed and quality of phishing campaigns.
- AI-generated emails can outperform manually written phishing in click-through rates.
- Deepfakes can impersonate executives in real-time video and audio calls.
- Traditional filters struggle when attacks use legitimate accounts and no malicious links.
- Phishing-resistant MFA and out-of-band verification are key defenses.
Read More: https://www.toxsec.com/p/ai-powered-phishing-why-traditional