AI Just Rewrote the Rules of BEC: Are Your Defenses Ready? | UpGuard

This report analyzes how generative AI is elevating phishing and BEC into highly targeted, context-aware threats—using LLMs to craft near-perfect emails, cloning voices and videos for impersonation, accelerating reconnaissance for precision targeting, and coordinating multi-channel campaigns—and recommends layered defenses including next‑generation awareness training, strict email authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), behavioral/AI-based detection, proactive domain/brand monitoring, and external visibility tools like UpGuard Breach Risk.