Commercial spam now constitutes 46% of all spam globally, with a significant portion originating from compromised accounts and free email services, according to VIPRE Security Group's Q1 2026 Email Threat Trends Report.
Ironscales founder and CEO Eyal Benishti warns that the rise of generative artificial intelligence has effectively neutered traditional secure email gateways by eliminating the very signals, malformed syntax, malicious attachments, and compromised sender reputations, upon which legacy detection models were architected, according to Forbes.