AI-powered social engineering is outpacing defenses, researchers warn
Thionne_WTZ · x · 2026-09-29
ro0TCr4k warns that AI-powered social engineering is exploding: attackers weaponize deepfakes and LLM-driven phishing to bypass human intuition, and traditional security training fails against it, with their research showing the attack surface evolving faster than most defenses.
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