Published Aug 19, 2026, 7:30 AM ET · Updated 3 months ago · 1 source
Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus Agent
The Hacker News
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Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the sender is no longer a person. From Bad Content to Bad Intent to AI on Both Sides Phishing 1.0 was bad