AI-Generated Phishing Became The Baseline' For Hackers Last Year - Kaseya Warns It's Going To Get Worse In 2026
ITPro, Thursday, March 19th, 2026
Forget looking for typos and bad grammar, phishing campaigns are using AI to boost their attack success
AI-generated phishing 'became the baseline' for cyber crime operations last year, according to new research from Kaseya.
Findings from the company's annual report on email security highlight how quickly hackers have managed to take advantage of generative AI models across operations.
The study showed 2025 was an "inflection point" for phishing and AI, with malicious emails now generated by AI by default. That fits with a previous report from Google that hackers are trying to use its Gemini model to augment their attacks.