Cofense Report Reveals AI-Powered Phishing Accelerated to One Attack Every 19 Seconds

Cofense's report, "The New Era of Phishing: Threats Built in the Age of AI," warns that AI has transformed phishing into a high-frequency, highly adaptive threat: analysts observed a malicious email every 19 seconds in 2025, widespread polymorphic URLs and unique file hashes, adaptive phishing pages that serve different payloads by device, AI-crafted impersonation and conversational BEC, a 900% surge in abuse of legitimate remote-access tools, and a 51x increase in .es domain abuse; the report urges adoption of post-delivery, human-informed detection and rapid remediation to keep pace with continuously evolving attacks.