The future of phishing

Abstract

Interactive demonstration and short essay showing how modern AI makes targeted email phishing dramatically cheaper, faster, and more effective. The piece explains how large language models can trawl publicly available information about a target to near-instantly infer identity, interests, and exploitable psychological vulnerabilities, and then generate highly personalized phishing emails at scale. The interactive demo lets readers see how convincingly AI-generated phishing tailored to specific profiles compares with generic attacks. – AI-generated abstract.