Building a genuinely convincing spear-phishing attempt used to take real effort: manually digging through websites, social media, and public records to assemble enough detail to be believable. AI tools have compressed that research process dramatically, turning what used to be hours of manual work into something closer to instant.
The result is precision phishing at a scale that wasn't previously practical: attacks personalised with a target's real role, real colleagues, and real recent activity, generated automatically rather than hand-crafted for a single high-value target.
That shift changes the calculus for defenders too. Generic phishing awareness training was already necessary; training people to expect a genuinely well-researched, highly specific attempt, not just a poorly-spelled generic one, is now essential.
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