IT Security: Study Shows High Click Rates Through AI Spear Phishing

TL;DR AI-generated A study of 7,741 participants from TU Braunschweig found that AI-generated spear-phishing emails achieved a click rate of 10.0 percent, nearly tripling the rate of generic emails (3.9 percent). Manually crafted phishing emails were most successful at 24.2 percent but required significantly more time.