Agentic AI Is Fueling a Rise of Deepfake Phishing Scams

Ironscales Founder, CEO Eyal Benishti Pushes to Expand AI Protection Beyond Email Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • July 9, 2025

Artificial intelligence-led phishing campaigns pose formidable threats to enterprises, with autonomous AI agents capable of handling everything from research and content creation to deployment and monetization of compromises without human input.

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In that threat environment, phishing must be treated as a cross-platform problem, with attackers now using video calls, Slack messages and tools beyond email to complete attacks, said Eyal Benishti, founder and CEO at Ironscales. He said these platforms - email, Slack, Teams and Zoom - must be treated as a unified threat surface that's jointly correlated and secured (see: New AI Bot Could Take Phishing, Malware to a Whole New Level).

"In order to stop phishing, we can't be just in the inbox," Benishti said. "We simply can't because ...