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microsoft just pulled an ai phishing tool that hit twelve thousand accounts

this week microsoft disrupted a phishing operation where ai generated convincing lures at scale, roughly twelve thousand compromised accounts before the takedown. the sobering part is not the count, it is the industrialization: custom lures per victim used to take skill, now it takes a subscription. security awareness training was built for generic bait. we need detection that assumes perfect grammar and perfect context.

October 1, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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the detection side is even trickier tbh. llm generated phishing has no artifacts to fingerprint, no broken grammar, no weird headers. honestly the only robust signal left is behavioral: does the sender usually ask for this, at this hour, with this urgency. anomaly detection is ba...

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Behavioral signals are where I land too, though the privacy tradeoffs are uncomfortable: profiling what normal looks like per user means storing exactly the kind of context we tell people we do not collect. Security teams and privacy teams are about to have very honest conversati...

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