Generative AI Makes Social Engineering More Dangerous—and Harder to Detect | IBM

According to the 2025 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, threat actors today are, on average, pursuing bigger, broader campaigns than they have in the past. This development is partly a matter of changing tactics, as many attackers have shifted their focus to supply-chain attacks that affect many victims at once.

But it is also a matter of changing tools. Many attackers have adopted generative AI like an intern or assistant, using it to build websites, generate malicious code and…