Five Ways Ai Is Changing Cyber-Attacks: Deepfakes, Smishing And The New Threat Landscape
ESET, Monday, December 22nd, 2025
Cybersecurity has always been an arms race between attackers and defenders. Now AI is set to supercharge that dynamic.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we use technology - for good and bad. In cybersecurity, it can help network defenders, but it's also giving a leg up to the threat actors. Always among the first to adopt new technologies, they are weaponizing generative AI (GenAI) tools in ever greater numbers.
That means more phishing emails which look flawless, fake faces or voices asking victims to transfer money, and new low-quality malware generated by tech novices.