# Cybersecurity Is Being Rebuilt by AI at Frightening Speed

Click rates on phishing emails once hovered around 12 percent. Hand the same task to a language model and, in simulated environments, that figure jumps to 52 percent, according to security vendor Brightside, whose research also determined that 82 percent of phishing emails now involve AI at some sta

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| Published | 8 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/cybersecurity-is-being-rebuilt-by-ai-at-frightening-speed/