The 2026 Workforce Impersonation Report has a stark warning for business leaders: Scams are on the rise. Items to watch out for:
• Deepfakes and generative AI scams that manipulate AI to create synthetic audio, video and image content.
• Helpdesk social engineering attacks that target IT support desks.
• Multi-authentication bypasses and interception.
• Phishing and vishing (the act of voice phishing).
• North Korean IT workers (Formidable recently wrote about this) where operatives infiltrate companies through remote IT jobs.
• Agentic AI use, where autonomous software agents can “reason, plan and act without human prompts.”
The report goes into detail on each threat, with examples, and offers actions employers can take to protect themselves.
