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Attackers Poison AI Chatbot Answers to Spread Phishing and Disinformation

Threat actors are seeding the web with malicious links and manipulated data, then optimizing this content so that ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview surface it in their answers, enabling mass disinformation and phishing campaigns.

Disclosed 23 September 2026 · Record updated 1 October 2026

Impact

Poisoned web content is being surfaced by AI chatbots and search overviews, exposing users to phishing links and disinformation.

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Sources

  1. darkreading.comhttps://darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/attackers-manipulate-ai-chatbots-mass-disinformation-phishing-campaign