How We Stop AI Attacks
Advanced protection against the new wave of intelligent threats
AI is Everywhere Including Your Inbox
In today's digital landscape, AI isn't just a buzzword, it's a reality reshaping how we work, communicate, and unfortunately, how attackers target organizations. At ilminate, we understand that AI-powered threats aren't science fiction; they're hitting inboxes right now with unprecedented sophistication.
Attackers are leveraging advanced AI systems that can adapt and execute complex attack sequences. These tools craft messages indistinguishable from trusted colleagues, bypass traditional security by continuously evolving their tactics, and patiently execute multi-stage campaigns that traditional defenses miss.
There's no escaping AI in cybersecurity but at ilminate, we ensure it's working for you, not against you.
How We Stop It — Step by Step
Prove Who's Allowed to Send
We start with identity. ilminate secures your email sending profiles so only approved services can send as your organization. We align legitimate senders (Microsoft 365, marketing tools, ticketing systems) and remove unauthorized ones. Changes are staged safely so there's no mail disruption. This blocks email impersonation attacks while our detection layer handles look-alike domains and display-name tricks.
Check New Mail Fast
Without changing your email flow, we have technology in place to evaluate new messages as they arrive in near real-time. We analyze sender history, unusual headers, thread-hijack signs, and risky links/QRs (including multi-hop redirects). If a message is risky, we move it to an in-mailbox folder called "ilminate Quarantine" with a clear reason code and a full audit trail; clean mail stays put. Admins can release items with one click and see exactly why they were held.
Catch AI Tricks
Attackers now use AI to rewrite messages endlessly and create automated attack sequences. ilminate groups near-duplicate emails, spots phrasing variations and topic drift, flags brand-impersonation kits and staged phishing pages, and correlates with account-takeover clues. (ATO signals like risky OAuth grants or unusual sign-ins are included when you enable our optional identity telemetry.) Findings appear in plain English with recommended next steps.
The AI Arms Race: Why Traditional Solutions Fall Short
Endless Variations, One Goal
AI systems can now generate thousands of unique phishing emails from a single prompt. Each message uses different wording, formatting, and psychological techniques—but all lead to the same malicious outcome. Our analysis shows that modern AI can produce over 500 distinct variations of the same attack in minutes, each crafted to bypass specific security filters.
ilminate's pattern recognition doesn't just look at individual messages—it identifies campaigns across seemingly unrelated emails by analyzing their underlying intent and techniques.
Conversation Hijacking
The most dangerous AI attacks aren't isolated emails—they're conversational. Our research found a 317% increase in multi-message attack sequences where AI analyzes previous replies and adapts accordingly. These attacks maintain context, address objections, and mimic the recipient's communication style with uncanny accuracy.
ilminate's conversation analysis tracks message threads to detect unnatural shifts in tone, urgency, or requested actions that signal an AI attacker has entered the conversation.
Learning From Failures
Traditional security tools celebrate blocked attacks, but miss what happens next. Modern AI attack systems automatically learn from failures, testing variations until they find what works. Our data shows that 73% of successful phishing attacks came after previous attempts were blocked.
ilminate's adaptive defense learns alongside these systems, identifying evolving patterns even as attackers shift their strategies in real-time.
Real Results Against AI Threats
reduction in executive impersonation attempts
detection time for novel AI phishing
false positives for critical communications
faster response to emerging campaigns
Take Control of the AI Battle
The cybersecurity landscape has fundamentally changed. AI hasn't just improved attacks—it's transformed them into persistent, adaptive threats that learn from every interaction.
At ilminate, we don't just block today's AI attacks—we evolve alongside them, ensuring your security stays ahead in this new era of intelligent threats.