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AI Chatbots Poisoned via Web Seeding in Disinformation Campaign

Forensic Summary

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.


Read the full technical deep-dive on Grid the Grey: https://gridthegrey.com/posts/ai-chatbots-poisoned-via-web-seeding-in-disinformation-campaign/

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