AI-Assisted Social Engineering Attacks Continue to Rise

A high-level overview highlights ThreatDown’s findings that AI is accelerating social engineering and phishing in 2025–2026, enabling deepfake-driven impersonation, MFA resets, and polished, localized phishing emails that harvest credentials via spoofed brand login pages. The piece emphasizes that attackers are scaling operations with generative AI, warns of continued growth, and includes a promotional note for AI-powered security awareness training to reduce human risk.