Phishing Attacks: Common Tactics Hackers Use in 2025
AI personalizes lures across email, SMS and voice; deepfakes add urgency and credibility.
AI personalizes lures across email, SMS and voice; deepfakes add urgency and credibility.
Attackers weaponize AI for phishing, evasion and password guessing; defenders must respond in kind.
Unpatched, unknown flaws give attackers a head start; detection relies on behavior, not signatures.
Expect AI‑scaled fraud, cloud supply‑chain abuse, IoT swarms and post‑quantum transitions.
A clear look at delivery, execution, persistence, escalation, exfiltration and impact with real‑world cues.
Humans are targeted with pretexts, authority cues and scarcity; training plus process stops the bleed.
Compromised PCs, phones and IoT devices are herded into C2 networks to deliver DDoS, spam and fraud.
Synthetic media supercharges impersonation—from CEO fraud to reputational blackmail—often bypassing gut checks.
Low‑malware, high‑loss schemes exploit authority and urgency to redirect payments and data.
DoS from one host; DDoS from thousands—both aim to exhaust capacity and deny service.