Phishing Season 2025: The Latest Predictions Unveiled

This report outlines seven key phishing predictions for 2025, forecasting greater adoption of AI by attackers (AI-driven phishing and AI vs. AI defenses), expanded phishing-as-a-service focused on MFA bypass and AiTM, a surge in vishing using voice cloning, increased mobile-targeted social engineering, election-targeted phishing, abuse of encrypted messaging platforms, and growth in browser-in-the-browser attacks; it cites multimillion‑dollar 2024 incidents as evidence of these trends and highlights the need for strengthened detection and defenses.