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 Copilot, DeepSeek, and Anthropic’s Claude to distribute malware, steal credentials, and commit financial fraud.
Google, in its latest Fraud & Scams Advisory, separately highlighted the evolution of tradi...