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AI-Powered Social Engineering

Those clumsy phishing emails with bad grammar and spelling mistakes? They're quickly becoming a thing of the past. The new threat is AI-generated: perfectly crafted, hyper-personalized, and deployed at a massive scale. Attackers are now using AI not just for convincing social engineering, but to discover zero-day vulnerabilities and generate polymorphic malware that evades traditional detection.

But this is a full-blown arms race. Defenders are firing back with the same technology, leveraging AI for real-time behavioral analysis to spot anomalies, enhance threat intelligence to predict attacks, and automate incident response to contain threats in milliseconds. It’s AI versus AI, and the most dangerous position to take is believing it's someone else's problem.

Let's dive into the stats, strategies, and code behind this new digital battlefield.