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# AI now powers 86% of phishing campaigns tracked by KnowBe4
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/ai-now-powers-86-of-phishing-campaigns-tracked-by-knowbe4/
- Published: 2026-05-01T16:12:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-01T16:12:33.000Z
- Description: The industrialization of phishing through generative AI is now operational baseline.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, security, regulation/policy, cybercrime

Source: [The Register](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/modern%5Fphishing%5Fcampaigns%5Fai/?ref=adjacent.media)

The industrialization of phishing through generative AI is now operational baseline. When a security vendor finds that the overwhelming majority of active phishing uses AI, attackers have solved the scale problem: personalization, linguistic fluency, and psychological targeting no longer require human expertise or effort, just API access. This collapses the cost and skill floor for phishing while making detection harder for humans and traditional security tools trained on older attack patterns.