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Report: Social Engineering Remains a Central Part of AI-assisted Attacks

ID: 0ea5bb01-1c9b-58e8-b246-2a741fb06776

STIX ID: report--0ea5bb01-1c9b-58e8-b246-2a741fb06776

Feed Name: KnowBe4 Blog

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2026-07-15

Date Updated: 2026-07-23

Author: KnowBe4 Team

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ESET's H1 2026 Threat Report documents a rapidly expanding ClickFix social‑engineering campaign that has broadened to macOS and WordPress, adopted AI‑themed 'AI‑fix' lures exploiting trust in generative tools, and refined deceptive prompts (fake BSOD, frozen document viewers); detections rose 108% between H2 2025 and H1 2026.

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