How AI Phishing Emails Are Built (And the One Pattern That Always Gives Them Away) (opens in new tab)

Most phishing detection advice is now actively harmful. Teaching users to look for typos and generic greetings made sense when phishing was a spray-and-pray operation running on bad grammar. That era is over. Here's how modern AI phishing is actually constructed, what signals remain reliable, and how to implement detection logic that accounts for the current threat model. How an AI Spear Phishing Email Gets Built The workflow an attacker follows in 2026 is largely automated: Step 1: Target re...