Why AI Obituary Scams Are a Cyber-Risk for Businesses

The article describes an opportunistic scam where attackers rapidly generate fake obituaries using chatbots and SEO poisoning to rank in search results, then redirect grieving visitors to spammy or malicious sites that show CAPTCHAs and fake virus alerts to push affiliate purchases or potentially deliver malware; Google has announced search-quality updates aimed at reducing such low-quality spam.