Mar 26 • 💬 General
AI-enabled attacks jumped 89% last year.
CrowdStrike just released its Global Threat Report for 2026, and one number stood out.
AI-enabled cyberattacks increased 89% in 2025 compared to the year before.
Nearly double. In a single year.
The attacks you're already familiar with are now being produced by AI at a scale and quality that wasn't possible 12 months ago.
Here's what that looks like in practice:
- The phishing email that used to be easy to spot because of bad grammar? AI now writes it perfectly, in your tone, referencing your actual business context, in any language.
- The fake invoice or wire transfer request that used to take an attacker hours to craft? AI generates hundreds of them in minutes, each personalized to a different company.
- The "CEO" asking your finance team to move money urgently? AI can now clone voices and generate convincing video. The request sounds and looks exactly like the person your team trusts.
The attacks themselves haven't changed. The volume and quality have.
So what does this mean for you?
It means the single most important defense you have right now is not software. It's process.
Specifically: verification processes that don't rely solely on how something looks or sounds.
Three things worth doing this week:
1. Establish a callback rule. Any request involving a wire transfer, credential change, or sensitive data access gets verified via a separate, known phone number. Not a reply to the email. Not a response to the message. A separate call.
2. Brief your finance and operations teams. They are the primary target. They need to know that convincing-looking requests are no longer a reliable signal of legitimacy.
3. Ask yourself: if someone impersonated me right now and contacted my team, what would stop them from complying? If your honest answer is "not much," that's your priority this week.
The arms race CrowdStrike describes is real. The good news is that the defenses that matter most don't require a security budget, they require awareness and a few deliberate process changes.
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