AI Offense Has Already Hit Finance. The Defense Architecture Hasn't Caught Up.

Executive summary: The report warns of rapidly scaling, AI-enabled, multi-vector attacks against financial services—phishing infrastructure has tripled and now represents half of observed activity, while nearly 150 financial organizations were impacted by ransomware in a 90-day period—highlighting credential theft, spearphishing, and deepfake-enabled fraud. It argues that traditional SIEM/MDR/headcount approaches are insufficient and positions ReliaQuest's GreyMatter platform as an agentic defense that enables in-transit detection, schema-native correlation, and autonomous response.