IRONSCALES Report Finds AI Agents Are Becoming a New Target for Phishing

A phishing message no longer needs to persuade the employee who owns an inbox. It can target the software reading that inbox on their behalf. That is the central warning of IRONSCALES' new From Deepfakes to Double Agents: The New Face of AI-Driven Cyber Risk report, which finds that enterprise adoption of tools capable of taking action has moved faster than the security controls surrounding them. In the company-commissioned Censuswide survey, 77% of respondents said an AI agent or tool at their...