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Iran Used ChatGPT to Plant Fake Articles in US Publications

Iran Used ChatGPT to Plant Fake Articles in US Publications

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 8.2 OpenAI (via HN)

An Iranian influence operation leveraged ChatGPT to generate disinformation articles that were successfully planted inside legitimate U.S. news publications, according to an OpenAI disclosure. The campaign demonstrates how state-sponsored actors are operationalising large language models to scale credible-looking propaganda at reduced cost and effort. This represents a meaningful escalation in AI-assisted information warfare targeting Western media ecosystems.

AI Chatbots Poisoned via Web Seeding in Disinformation Campaign

AI Chatbots Poisoned via Web Seeding in Disinformation Campaign

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 8.2 Dark Reading

Threat actors are actively manipulating AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews by seeding the web with malicious links and optimised content designed to corrupt AI-generated answers. The campaign combines disinformation and phishing objectives, exploiting how large language models and retrieval-augmented systems ingest and surface web content. This represents a scalable, infrastructure-level attack on public trust in AI-assisted information retrieval.

Israel-Linked Fake Think Tank Targets LLM Training Data

Israel-Linked Fake Think Tank Targets LLM Training Data

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 8.1 Cohere AI (via HN)

The Hanover Institute, a fabricated think tank created on behalf of the Israeli Government Advertising Agency, has published over 100 formulaic reports engineered to manipulate how LLMs like Claude and Gemini respond to questions about Israel-Palestine. The operation, marketed by firm Piro Inc as 'AI Story Optimization,' represents a state-linked deployment of LLM poisoning via credibility-crafted web content. This is a concrete, documented example of adversarial influence targeting AI retrieval and training pipelines at scale.

Pushpaganda: AI-Generated Scareware Hits Google Discover

Pushpaganda: AI-Generated Scareware Hits Google Discover

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 6.2 The Hacker News

A large-scale ad fraud and scareware campaign dubbed 'Pushpaganda' has been uncovered exploiting Google Discover by using AI-generated content to poison search discovery surfaces and lure users into enabling malicious push notifications. At its peak the operation generated 240 million bid requests across 113 domains in a single week, demonstrating how AI-generated disinformation can be weaponised as an automated delivery mechanism for financial fraud. The campaign highlights the growing abuse of generative AI to scale deceptive content operations against trusted platform surfaces.

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