Why Social Engineering Works: The Adversary Economics Behind the Attack

**The post argues social engineering is primarily an adversary economics problem rather than a human failing.** It explains that AI and industrialized tooling have dramatically reduced the cost and increased the scale of convincing lures, turning conversations into high-yield, low-detection products, and recommends defenders focus on disrupting attackers' reusable infrastructure (lookalike domains, staged personas, recycled numbers) to raise attacker costs rather than depending mainly on user training.