You have clearly read at least part of the article since you started this thread by claiming phishing is not hacking. The article also states that the group Proofpoint was tracking was at the very least Russia aligned. The scripts they were using were customized to target NATO and NATO aligned organizations. We know they were targeting pro NATO and pro Ukraine officials because they have attacked multiple countries, and all their targets fit that bill. This is in the first two paragraphs of the article.

You at right in the technical sense, but I think you are just nitpicking. If someone convinces grandma to give them her Facebook login, grandma says she got hacked, and would probably call that person a hacker. GPT isn’t really an AI, but we call it that anyways because how society uses words doesn’t stick to a single dictionary definition.

It kind of is though? No one really bothers with traditional attacks like man in the middle anymore cause it’s much easier to trick someone into giving you their password. The point of hacking is to get access to information on a computer, social engineering attacks do that.