Pakistan, May 18 -- Cybercriminals are increasingly using artificial intelligence to enhance phishing attacks, making email scams more convincing, scalable, and difficult to detect across global business and personal communication systems. A new cybersecurity report highlights how attackers now rely on AI-driven tools to automate and improve social engineering techniques at an alarming pace. Consequently, email security threats have reached unprecedented levels worldwide.

Researchers from Barracuda Networks analyzed more than 3.1 billion emails in January 2026 to understand evolving cyber threats across spam, phishing, and malicious content. The study found that attackers are shifting away from traditional malware files and increasingly ...