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title: Hackers Use AI to Supercharge Social Engineering Attacks
metaTitle: "AI-Fueled Trust Exploitation"
description: "AI-fueled trust exploitation is the latest trend in fraud, increasing both credibility and volume, and striking human targets upstream of IT defenses."
slug: ai-to-supercharge-soc-eng-attacks
date: "2025-10-24T12:00:00-05:00"
featured: true
image:
  src: "https://cdn.securelogix.dev/slx/images/ai-to-supercharge-soc-eng-attacks.webp"
  alt: A human hand offering up cash to a robot hand.
sourcePublisher:
  name: PYMNTS
  url: www.pymnts.com
sourceArticle:
  url: "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2025/hackers-use-ai-supercharge-social-engineering-attacks/"
tags: [Vishing, Boss Scam, Social Engineering]
status: published
---

Cybercriminals are using generative artificial intelligence and synthetic media tools to scale phishing, vishing and callback scams into high-volume, high-precision operations that are harder to spot and costlier to contain.

The result is billions of dollars lost to fraudsters, according to the FBI’s 2024 Internet Crime Report, the most recent year for the report. The agency logged 859,532 complaints and $16.6 billion in losses last year, a 33% increase from 2023. Phishing and spoofing were the most common types of online crime, at 193,407 incidents...