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fishing

Also known as: phishing, vishing

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Cybersecurity Trends and Predictions 2025 From Industry Insiders itprotoday.com ITPro Today 25 facts

claimAI-driven phishing will continue to be a major security issue in 2025 as AI capabilities are used to create more sophisticated and cleverly crafted campaigns.

claimJohn Bennett, CEO of Dashlane, claims that cybercriminals are leveraging AI to create highly personalized and harder-to-detect malware and phishing schemes.

claimMulti-modal AI systems, by integrating text, images, voice, and coding capabilities, will allow threat actors to streamline and automate the entire pipeline of a cyber attack, including target profiling, phishing, zero-day exploit discovery, malware generation, and data exfiltration.

claimEyal Benishti asserts that AI-enabled phishing kits and APIs will allow attackers to automate the creation of personalized, targeted, and polymorphic phishing emails, increasing both the volume of attacks and their success rates.

measurementA Vercara survey found that consumers are most concerned about ransomware, nation-state attacks, and phishing in 2025.

claimGenerative AI empowers both attackers and defenders, with attackers using it to generate complex, targeted phishing, deepfakes, and adaptive malware.

claimThe NPD and MC2 data breaches that occurred in 2024 will provide cyber criminals with increased access to personal data, which, when combined with AI-generated deep fakes, will facilitate more realistic and effective phishing and spear phishing campaigns in 2025.

claimRiaz Lakhani, CISO at Barracuda, expects to see high-quality phishing attacks that utilize layered follow-up social engineering tactics to warm up targets.

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.

claimAttackers can improve the success rate of credential stuffing against services like VPNs by impersonating employees who have fallen victim to phishing emails.

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 is lowering the barrier to entry for creating sophisticated phishing campaigns, including deepfake voice calls and hyper-personalized spear phishing emails.

perspectiveCybersecurity strategies must shift toward advanced data protection, AI-driven threat detection, and continuous employee training to mitigate risks from sophisticated phishing and ransomware attacks.

claimAlex Holland, principal threat researcher at HP Security Lab, predicts that phishing click-through rates may rise as Generative AI helps attackers craft convincing, multi-lingual, and targeted lures.

claimAs deepfake technology becomes more accessible to consumers, it will likely be incorporated into phishing toolkits to conduct hyper-personalized attacks.

claimPhishing schemes are expected to rise, specifically those where malicious sites mimic legitimate ones by using similar domain names.

claimGenerative AI accelerates the understanding of people, processes, and technologies, which will facilitate sophisticated attacks such as phishing, deep fakes, and vishing.

claimCybercriminals will increasingly exploit the holiday shopping season using highly targeted scams, including fake package delivery notifications, fraudulent order confirmations, and phishing texts claiming missed deliveries.

measurementSince the release of commercial generative artificial intelligence tools, phishing attacks have surged by 1,265 percent.

claimBad actors are increasingly using AI to create more convincing phishing emails, automate the discovery of vulnerabilities, and develop malware that evades detection by traditional security tools.

claimIn 2025, threat actors will weaponize generative AI to orchestrate large-scale cyber attacks, including autonomously identifying vulnerabilities, crafting deceptive phishing campaigns, and bypassing detection systems.

claimMichael Smith, field CTO at Vercara, asserts that businesses failing to prioritize protection against ransomware, nation-state attacks, and phishing will be especially vulnerable, putting customer trust and data at heightened risk.

claimCybercriminals are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to craft targeted phishing attacks, requiring organizations to evolve their defensive strategies.

claimMultimodal AI-driven cyber attacks will encompass target profiling, phishing content creation (including vishing), zero-day exploit discovery, malware generation, infrastructure deployment, lateral network movement, and data exfiltration.

claimBill Murphy, director of security & compliance at LeanTaaS, observes that cybercriminals are using AI to create highly persuasive phishing campaigns that lack traditional indicators of fraud, such as poor grammar or awkward phrasing.

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claimEarly settlers in North America incorrectly perceived that coastal First Peoples relied primarily on seafood and did not efficiently use land resources, while assuming Interior Peoples relied predominantly on hunting and fishing.

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claimHumans relied exclusively on hunting, gathering, and fishing for food until the development of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago.

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claimHumans obtained food through hunting, gathering, and fishing prior to the advent of agriculture 10,000 years ago.