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How Hackers Use Agentic AI for Social Engineering & Phishing - Keepnet
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Publication date unknown · First observed: 11 Oct 2026
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Why it matters
Agentic AI lets attackers automate reconnaissance and personalized phishing at scale, raising the volume and success rate of social-engineering attacks defenders must detect.
Keepnet's blog by CEO Ozan Ucar explains how attackers use agentic AI to automate and scale social engineering and phishing, crafting near-perfect lures, bypassing defenses, and running campaigns autonomously. The piece references a validated study (arXiv:2412.00586) showing fully AI-automated spear-phishing emails achieving click-through rates on par with human experts and 350% above a control group.