How Cybercriminals and Nation-State Actors Are Leveraging Sophisticated Social Engineering Techniques to Attack Global Organizations at Scale Today, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 released the 2025 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report: Social Engineering Edition. This report explores the
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The integration of AI into adversarial operations is fundamentally reshaping the speed, scale and sophistication of attacks. As AI defense capabilities evolve, so do the AI strategies and tools leveraged by threat actors, creating a rapidly shifting threat landscape that outpaces traditional detection and response methods. This accelerating evolution necessitates











