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title: "AI-Powered Social Engineering: Reinvented Threats"
metaTitle: "AI-Powered Social Engineering"
description: "Not long ago, fraudsters crafted latex masks to impersonate figures of authority. Now, an array of futuristic tools make them far more dangerous."
slug: ai-social-engineering-reinvented-threats
date: "2025-02-07T12:00:00-05:00"
featured: true
image:
  src: "https://cdn.securelogix.dev/slx/images/ai-reinvented-threats.webp"
  alt: A person wearing a rubber mask
sourcePublisher:
  name: The Hacker News
  url: "https://thehackernews.com/"
sourceArticle:
  url: "https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/ai-powered-social-engineering.html"
tags: [Vishing, Impersonation, Social Engineering, AI]
status: published
---

The foundations for social engineering attacks – manipulating humans – might not have changed much over the years. It's the vectors – how these techniques are deployed – that are evolving. And like most industries these days, AI is accelerating its evolution.

This article explores how these changes are impacting business, and how cybersecurity leaders can respond.

### Impersonation attacks: using a trusted identity

Traditional forms of defense were already struggling to solve social engineering, the 'cause of most data breaches' according to Thomson Reuters. The next generation of AI-powered cyber attacks and threat actors can now launch these attacks with unprecedented speed, scale, and realism...