Security Weekly - A CRA Resource: AI Just Made Phishing More Profitable

LLMs can automate significant parts of phishing campaigns. Research has found that AI-automated phishing can reduce attack costs by more than 95% while achieving comparable or greater success rates.

Lower costs change the incentive for attackers. If campaigns become easier to produce, personalize, and scale, attackers can potentially reach more victims without a proportional increase in effort. INTERPOL’s 2026 assessment also found AI-enhanced fraud to be 4.5 times more profitable than traditional methods.

How should organizations rethink phishing defenses when the economics increasingly favor the attacker?

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