Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting the trust organizations place in artificial intelligence platforms to conduct sophisticated phishing attacks, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Cato Networks. The company’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service recently uncovered a campaign where threat actors leveraged Simplified AI, a popular marketing platform, to steal Microsoft 365 credentials from […] The post Hackers Use AI Platforms to Steal Microsoft 365 Credentials in Phishing Campaign appeared first on Cyber Security News.

A new cyber-attack, dubbed “Grokking,” is exploiting features on the social media platform X to spread malicious links on a massive scale. Scammers are manipulating the platform’s advertising system and its generative AI, Grok, to bypass security measures and amplify harmful domains. This technique turns X’s own tools into unwilling accomplices in a widespread malvertising […] The post Hackers Leverage X’s Grok AI To Amplify Malicious Links Via Promoted Posts appeared first on Cyber Security News.

Malicious actors have found a new way to slip harmful links into X’s promoted posts by tricking Grok, the platform’s AI assistant. Although X explicitly bans links in paid promotions to curb malvertising, scammers now harness Grok’s content amplificati…