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Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to enhance social engineering by enabling the automated generation of persuasive, multilingual, and personalized content for phishing attacks, as described in [1], [2], and [3]. Furthermore, AI-powered social engineering is identified as a sophisticated, hard-to-detect threat that complicates modern cybersecurity landscapes [4] and [5].
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Cybersecurity Trends and Predictions 2025 From Industry Insiders itprotoday.com 5 facts
claimArtificial intelligence will increase the threat of social engineering by enabling junior attackers to generate multilingual, credible, and official-sounding text to manipulate people.
claimRiaz Lakhani, CISO at Barracuda, predicts that threat actors will use artificial intelligence to scale content creation, produce more persuasive content, and employ deepfake and voice replication technologies for sophisticated phishing and social engineering attacks.
claimCybercriminals will use AI to craft personalized phishing and social engineering campaigns by adapting messages on the fly and analyzing media and social media trends.
claimAI-powered attack techniques, including autonomous malware, social engineering, data exfiltration, and credential stuffing, are becoming significantly harder to detect than traditional threats.
claimAttackers may use AI to craft sophisticated social engineering attacks and review public code for vulnerabilities, complicating cybersecurity in the near future.