AI can draft a phishing email in 5 minutes, versus 16 hours for humans
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-07-26
The thread says AI has industrialized phishing and social engineering.
Numbers cited
- An effective phishing email takes AI 5 minutes to write, versus 16 hours for a human team.
- AI phishing attacks that bypass mail filters reportedly rose 14x in a year.
- The post also says persuasiveness itself has become a tunable parameter.
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