What if the “smart” chatbot you trust for answers tells you something wrong—and a hacker is counting on it? That’s not sci-fi. It’s today’s reality. AI chatbots can hallucinate: they generate fluent, confident answers that are false. On their own, hallucinations are annoying. In the hands of attackers, they become a new social engineering and…
If you’ve ever clicked what looked like a legitimate password reset link, landed on a crisp, familiar-looking page, and then—oddly—found yourself back on the real site, you’ve seen the new face of online deception. That “clean” detour wasn’t an accident; it was an attack optimized to stay invisible. Here’s the hard truth: domain-based attacks—the ones…
What if the “official” Brazilian government website you just found on Google was a polished AI fake—built in minutes—and it asked you to pay R$87,40 to “complete your exam”? And what if, at the same time, a stealthy Trojan swapped your crypto wallet address the second you hit paste? That’s not a hypothetical. Researchers have…
If you think generative AI only helps defenders, think again. Cybercriminals are now using legitimate AI website builders to churn out convincing government lookalike sites—and they’re pairing those scams with a crypto-stealing Trojan that spreads through email, torrents, and compromised WordPress sites. The result: thousands of victims, stolen credentials, and drained wallets. In this guide,…
Imagine typing a simple prompt—“create a Microsoft sign-in page”—and in seconds, an AI generates a near-perfect replica. No coding, no graphic design, no expertise required. Now, imagine that replica isn’t just a demo or a harmless experiment, but a weaponized phishing site, ready to steal credentials at scale. Welcome to the unsettling new frontier of…
