94% of U.K. Businesses Aren’t Adequately Prepared for AI-Driven Phishing Scams

A KnowBe4 article citing Vodafone Business's "Proactive Security – Phishing of the Future" warns U.K. organizations that AI-driven phishing—spanning spear phishing with deepfakes, chatbot and NLP-enabled lures, AI-assisted BEC, social media scams, and automated phishing kits—is outpacing employee readiness; despite 78% of employees claiming confidence, only a third correctly identify scams and a third of businesses have not provided cybersecurity training in two years, underscoring the need for continuous security awareness training and phishing simulations.