How AI-powered phishing killed blocklists for good
Summary
AI is enabling attackers to create rapidly evolving phishing infrastructure that traditional blocklists struggle to keep up with. Push Security suggests that browser-level, technique-based detection is a more effective long-term defense against these sophisticated attacks.
IFF Assessment
FOE
The article discusses how AI is enhancing phishing attacks, making them harder to detect and block, which is bad news for defenders.
Defender Context
Attackers are leveraging AI to create more dynamic and evasive phishing campaigns. Defenders need to move beyond static detection methods like blocklists and focus on more adaptive, behavior-based or technique-based detection strategies that can identify malicious activity regardless of infrastructure changes.