Matthew RosenquistFounder & CISO Advisor, Cybersecurity Insights · CISO, Cybersecurity Strategist, & Industry Advisor

AI powered phishing and fraud are evolving rapidly - #cybersecurity expert Matthew Rosenquist

9 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker—identified as a cybersecurity professional—explains that modern phishing and fraud operations are built entirely on AI‑generated artifacts. Cybercriminals create fake people, companies, business models, webpages, graphics, executive profiles, and customer testimonials using AI to make their lures look legitimate. These AI‑crafted elements enable highly convincing, customized engagements that can be scaled to many victims. The speaker acknowledges both the current sophistication of these attacks and the likelihood that they will become even more effective in the future.

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What's important to know is this is all fake. Fake people, fake company, fake business model, all intended to look sufficiently legit to get a victim on a call, get their information and their money. The engaging email, fake contact profile, company webpage, graphics, executive profiles, customer testimonials, all of it is all the work of AI. Cybercriminals are effectively leveraging AI solutions to improve their attack tactics and infrastructure to appear more convincing and also for scaling out to more victims with very customized and compelling engagements. At this stage, I'm impressed as a cybersecurity professional who has fun identifying such attacks anyway, but I also know such scams will get much better.