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Supercharged scams
Criminals are weaponizing ChatGPT to scale phishing and fraud. Here's what enterprise security teams need to know.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
As generative AI democratizes, fraud infrastructure is evolving faster than detection. This is a critical governance and risk briefing for security and compliance leaders deciding how to defend against AI-enabled social engineering at scale.
The key facts
4 to knowChatGPT public release (late 2022) catalyzed criminal adoption of LLMs for email spam and phishing
Criminals using large language models to generate malicious emails at scale
Both untargeted spam and sophisticated targeted attacks leveraging LLM-generated content
Published April 21, 2026 — emerging threat landscape in real-time
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MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
Publisher excerpt: When ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, it opened people’s eyes to how easily generative AI could churn out vast amounts of human-seeming text from simple prompts. This quickly caught the attention of criminals, who soon began using large language models to produce malicious…