Can you trust your chatbot? Inside three AI-powered cyberattacks
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Visit Security Intelligence podcast page to get more cybersecurity content → https://ibm.biz/~2mSWCqIG9 Ask a chatbot for a customer service number, and you might get a scammer's. That's the trick behind "Dark Sourcery," a campaign that games AI answer engines into citing phishing links and fake support lines. It's SEO poisoning updated for an AEO world, and it works because so few of us verify what AI tells us before charging ahead. On episode 53 of Security Intelligence, Kimmie Farrington, Curtis Pitts and Dave McGinnis join hosts Matt Kosinski and Patrick Austin to break down three AI-enabled cyberattacks and what they mean for defenders. First, the poisoned chatbots: How does Dark Sourcery work, and how do we rethink trust in the AI era? Then, a threat actor spends months tearing through Ubiquiti, WordPress and Zyxel gear, stealing thousands of government documents. GreyNoise suspects it had an LLM helping write its tools. Finally, an AI agent swarm breaches hundreds of Pape
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