Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot? Bad grammar, weird formatting, and requests from a "Prince" in a distant country? Those days are over. Today, a 16-year-old with zero coding skills and a $200 allowance can launch a campaign that rivals state-sponsored hackers. They don't need to be smart; they just need to subscribe to the right AI tool. We are witnessing the industrialization of cybercrime.
Attackers now rent trust. Five dollar VPS nodes buy entry to your allow list and they accomplish this by getting a clean ASN and fresh IP making traffic feel like a trusted source, not a criminal. In this case, the adversary is riding live sessions and no longer just harvesting passwords. The mailbox becomes the control plane. Vague rules act like a kind of stealth policy.