AI phishing attack in Australia

Mimecast uncovered MCTO3001, one of the largest recent phishing campaigns in Australia that sent ~70,000 highly convincing fake government emails per month (≈270,000 total), leveraging advanced evasion (reverse tunneling), high-fidelity impersonation, and likely AI-assisted content generation to scale personalized attacks; the report outlines impacts (credential theft, data breaches, potential malware/ransomware), discusses how LLM capabilities and jailbreaks can enable such attacks, and recommends AI red teaming and stronger model safety testing.