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When Leaders Outsource Their Voice to AI, Phishing Gets a Free Upgrade

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Kyle Haugen
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Kyle Haugen
Senior Software Engineer

As executives and senior leaders increasingly rely on generative AI to draft their Slack messages and emails, they are quietly dismantling one of the most reliable defenses organizations have against social engineering. People develop distinct communication fingerprints over years of correspondence, and those quirks form an informal but surprisingly effective authentication layer that threat actors have historically struggled to replicate. When everyone writes in the same polished, AI-smoothed register, that layer disappears.

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