Phishing
Adversaries may send phishing messages to gain access to victim systems. All forms of phishing are electronically delivered social engineering. Phishing can be targeted, known as spearphishing. In spearphishing, a specific individual, company, or industry will be targeted by the adversary. More generally, adversaries c
- Framework
- MITRE ATLAS
- Maturity
- Realized
- Platforms
- Enterprise
- Release
- 2026.05
Overview
Adversaries may send phishing messages to gain access to victim systems. All forms of phishing are electronically delivered social engineering. Phishing can be targeted, known as spearphishing. In spearphishing, a specific individual, company, or industry will be targeted by the adversary. More generally, adversaries can conduct non-targeted phishing, such as in mass malware spam campaigns.
Generative AI, including LLMs that generate synthetic text, visual deepfakes of faces, and audio deepfakes of speech (See Generate Deepfakes), is enabling adversaries to scale targeted phishing campaigns (See Spearphishing via Social Engineering LLM). LLMs can interact with users via text conversations and can be programmed with a system prompt to phish for sensitive information. Deepfakes can also be used in Impersonation as an aid to phishing.
Sources
- MITRE ATLAS AML.T0052: Phishing — MITRE