Security shifts to the human layer as AI scams surge (opens in new tab)

Cybercriminals are increasingly reshaping familiar social-engineering campaigns around the way employees use AI, with separate advisories from Microsoft and Google documenting how attackers are adapting scams to AI-powered tools, trusted digital services, and changing workplace behavior. Microsoft Threat Intelligence, in its advisory, said threat actors are “leveraging the wider global interest around AI itself as a social engineering lure,” impersonating platforms such as ChatGPT, Microsoft ...