Phishing Attack Volume Down 20%, But Risk Still Rising
Phishing volumes dropped 20%, yet per-campaign success rates are climbing as attackers leverage AI to craft more convincing lures — a quality-over-quantity shift that defeats volume-based detection heuristics.
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Hackers are valuing quality over quantity, using AI to upgrade their phishing attacks rather than multiply them.
Editorial Analysis
Volume-based email security thresholds will miss the new wave; enterprises need behavioural and contextual analysis to catch lower-volume, higher-fidelity phishing campaigns.
Evaluate whether your email gateway relies on volumetric anomaly detection and supplement it with AI-driven content-analysis and link-detonation capabilities.
Phishing is getting smarter, not bigger — traditional volume-based defences are becoming insufficient.
Forward-looking interpretation drafted by editorial AI under human review — not a reproduction of the source. See methodology.
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