Threat Actors Are Increasingly Abusing Generative AI Tools for Phishing
KnowBe4, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing AI-assisted website generators to quickly craft convincing phishing sites, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.
In many cases, even when these services have safeguards in place to prevent abuse, criminals are able to bypass these measures in order to create phishing pages. Unit 42 tested a popular website generator to see how easy it was to spin up a spoofed website.
'The website builder only required a valid email address to establish a trial account and publish a page impersonating our company,' Unit 42 says.