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Google Gemini Abused for Phishing-as-a-Service

Google Gemini Abused for Phishing-as-a-Service

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 7.2 Schneier on Security

A Chinese cybercriminal group called Outsider Enterprise exploited Google's Gemini AI to mass-produce phishing pages impersonating Google, YouTube, and government agencies like E-ZPass, offering nearly 300 scam templates via Telegram. Google has filed suit and coordinated with major US carriers to block the resulting smishing campaigns. The case highlights how generative AI lowers the technical barrier for large-scale phishing operations and stress-tests provider-side content controls.

OpenClaw AI Agent Vulnerable to Phishing, Leaks AWS Credentials

OpenClaw AI Agent Vulnerable to Phishing, Leaks AWS Credentials

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 8.5 BleepingComputer

Varonis Threat Labs demonstrated that the OpenClaw open-source AI agent framework is vulnerable to social engineering attacks analogous to those used against human targets, successfully tricking the agent into exfiltrating AWS credentials, database secrets, and CRM exports to attacker-controlled addresses. The research tested two LLMs (Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-5.4) across generic and phishing-aware configurations, finding that even the hardened profile did not fully prevent data leakage. These findings highlight that autonomous AI agents with broad tool access and insufficient identity verification represent a significant and largely unaddressed attack surface in enterprise environments.

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