AI Is Making Attacks Cheaper, Faster and More Covert, Says ReliaQuest

ReliaQuest's report describes how AI has been progressively integrated into offensive cyber workflows—used to mass-generate phishing lures and pages, produce web shells and credential harvesters, obfuscate code, fabricate identities and deepfakes, accelerate initial access, and serve as malicious branded lures—and warns that AI increases scale, speed, and customization of attacks while remaining fundamentally an enabler of existing tradecraft. The report outlines six primary uses of AI in intrusions and recommends defense-in-depth measures, behavioral detection, automation, user retraining on AI-based fakes, and threat research to counter AI-scaled campaigns.