Half The Spam In Your Inbox Is Generated By AI - Its Use In Advanced Attacks Is At An Earlier Stage
Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
Cyber attackers are leveraging the power of AI to boost their chances of success in email-based attacks. AI tools can help them to develop and launch more attacks, more frequently, and to make these attacks more evasive, convincing and targeted. But to what extent are they doing these things?
Determining whether or how AI has been used in an email attack is not always straightforward, and this makes it harder to see what is really going on under the hood. We believe that to build effective defenses against AI-based email attacks, we need to have a better understanding of how attackers are using these tools today and what for and how that is evolving.
There are numerous reports about how cybercriminals are using generative AI to fool their adversaries, but there is limited hard data on how attackers are using such tools to increase the efficiency of their attackers.