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Attackers Manipulate AI Chatbots in Mass Disinformation, Phishing Campaign

ID: bf1de9e7-5206-57f4-8502-57759b81d658

STIX ID: report--bf1de9e7-5206-57f4-8502-57759b81d658

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-09-23

Date Updated: 2026-10-06

Author: Elizabeth Montalbano

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Attackers are conducting a large-scale "Dark Sourcery" campaign that floods the web with optimized fake pages, PDFs, reviews, and support sites so AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Google Gemini) will surface fraudulent phone numbers, emails, login pages and phishing links as factual answers; researchers observed tens of thousands of malicious pages impacting at least 374 companies and warn organizations and users to verify AI-sourced information and monitor chatbot outputs and cited sources.

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