AI-driven social engineering top cyber threat for 2026, ISACA survey reveals

AI-driven social engineering is set to be one of the most significant cyber threats in 2026, a new ISACA report revealed.

The 2026 ISACA Tech Trends and Priorities report, published on October 20, 2025, found that this type of AI threat is seen as a major challenge by 63% of the 3000 IT and cybersecurity professionals surveyed.

This is the first time AI driven social engineering has topped the ISACA report’s findings, surpassing long-standing threats such as ransomware and extortion attacks (cited among the top threats for 2026 by 54% of respondents) and supply chain attacks (mentioned by 35% of those surveyed).

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