Threat Spotlight: How Attackers Poison AI Tools And Defenses
Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Barracuda has reported on how generative AI is being used to create and distribute spam emails and craft highly persuasive phishing attacks. These threats continue to evolve and escalate - but they are not the only ways in which attackers leverage AI.
Security researchers are now seeing threat actors manipulate companies' AI tools and tamper with their AI security features in order to steal and compromise information and weaken a target's defenses.
Email attacks targeting AI assistants
AI assistants and the large language models (LLMs) that support their functionality are vulnerable to abuse.