Companies aren’t prepared for how AI is accelerating impersonation attacks

The cybersecurity industry devotes a lot of attention to how AI helps hackers analyze vulnerabilities more quickly and craft better malware, but a new report argues that AI’s improved impersonation of corporate leaders is proving just as consequential.

Impersonation attacks have targeted either executives or lower-level employees at more than half (53%) of organizations this year, the security firm Outtake said in a report published on June 4.

At the same time, the report found, three-quarters of respondents to Outtake’s survey performed only limited impersonation monitoring or only reacted to attacks as they happened.

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