Smishing infrastructure
Incidents implicated systems
Incident 10773 Rapports
FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices
2025-05-15
According to a May 15, 2025 public alert from the FBI and IC3, malicious actors have been using purported AI-generated voice messages and smishing tactics since April 2025 to impersonate senior U.S. officials. The campaign reportedly targets government personnel and their contacts to gain access to personal or official accounts. The FBI warns the scheme may involve credential theft and social engineering, with AI voice cloning used to increase believability.
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Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams
2026-05-01
Google alleged in a civil lawsuit that the China-based network Outsider Enterprise used Gemini and other AI tools to help create phishing websites for large-scale text-message scams impersonating companies and government services. Google said the network coordinated through Telegram, generated thousands of fake sites and fraudulent URLs, sent 2.5 million Android messages during a two-week period in May 2026, and financially scammed hundreds of thousands of people.
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Phone of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Allegedly Breached in Reported AI Voice Impersonation Incident
2025-05-30
President Trump announced that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had been impersonated via a phone breach involving AI-generated voice messages and spoofed texts. The attacker reportedly contacted high-profile individuals in her network while posing as Wiles. The incident is linked to a campaign identified by the FBI in April 2025, involving malicious actors using social engineering and AI to impersonate senior U.S. officials and gain access to sensitive information. See Incident 1077.
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