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Generative AI Fuels Email Scams as Spain Tightens Justice Guidelines and Mexico Exposes Campus Policy Gaps

New reports show mass adoption of AI outpacing safeguards across cybersecurity, courts, higher education.

Overview

  • Catalonia’s cybersecurity agency reports that 82.6% of emails containing malicious links now use generative tools, making phishing more automated and harder to spot.
  • Authorities cite roughly 300 cyberfraud complaints per day in Catalonia and a 160% jump in credential theft in 2024, alongside increased public and corporate investment in cyber resilience.
  • Spain’s judicial council approved rules requiring constant, effective human control over AI in courts as the national bar issued a white paper, following cases of AI‑fabricated jurisprudence cited in legal filings.
  • Mexico’s SEP survey—over 1.5 million student responses and about 170,000 from faculty—finds 77% of students and 78% of teachers use AI to write academic texts, while about 71% report no known institutional policy.
  • The SEP identifies welfare concerns with about 10% of students and 9% of faculty using AI for emotional support and urges a shift in university teaching toward debate, complex reasoning and critical reflection.