Lookout, Inc., the pioneer and leader in AI security for the mobile workforce, launched Social Engineering Protection (SEP), a new module within the Lookout Mobile AI Security Platform. SEP provides automated, real-time protection against the next generation of AI-driven mobile threats, including linkless smishing attacks, synthetic voice cloning, and other voice phishing (vishing) techniques.

Frontier AI is transforming social engineering by enabling attackers to create highly convincing deception with unprecedented realism, personalization, and scale. Advanced AI models can craft context-aware messages tailored to individual employees, while advanced voice cloning and deepfake technologies can convincingly impersonate executives, colleagues, and IT support. These capabilities make it increasingly difficult for employees to distinguish legitimate communications from malicious ones. As critical business interactions increasingly move to SMS, voice calls, WhatsApp, and other mobile channels, mobile has become a primary attack surface for AI-powered deception.

Legacy defenses were not designed for this new generation of AI-powered deception. Email security largely protects a single channel and often relies on detecting malicious links, attachments, and known indicators, while Security Awareness Training depends on employees recognizing increasingly sophisticated attacks themselves. Neither approach can keep pace with highly personalized, convincing attacks that span SMS, voice, and messaging applications. This new threat demands a more sophisticated approach—one that can continuously analyze the intent, context, and authenticity of mobile interactions in real time. Lookout Social Engineering Protection delivers that protection across mobile channels.

“Frontier AI has fundamentally changed the economics of cyber offense, making highly sophisticated social engineering accessible to mainstream attackers,” said Praveen Mamnani, Chief Product Officer at Lookout. “Legacy defenses like email security and awareness training were not designed for AI-powered deception that spans text, voice, and messaging channels. Lookout Social Engineering Protection closes that gap by detecting and stopping these attacks in real time, before users are deceived into taking action.”