Threat Actors Poison AI Chatbot Training Data for Mass Disinformation, Phishing

Attackers are seeding the web with malicious links and data to manipulate answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview, enabling large-scale disinformation and phishing. The technique exploits AI's reliance on web-sourced content, and the full scope of impact remains unquantified. This marks a notable escalation in AI-driven social engineering, as users increasingly trust AI-generated responses.