{
 "id": "AIR-2025-0162",
 "slug": "ai-enhanced-phishing-campaign-impersonates-australian-govern",
 "title": "AI-Enhanced Phishing Campaign Impersonates Australian Government Services",
 "summary": "Attackers leveraged AI tools to generate convincing phishing messages impersonating government services in a large-scale welfare scam. The campaign targeted hundreds of thousands of individuals with fraudulent emails.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "ai_phishing_social_engineering"
 ],
 "severity": 3,
 "targets": [
  "individual_victims"
 ],
 "products": [],
 "incident_date": "2025-11-17",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2025-11-17",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1275",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Purportedly AI-Enhanced Phishing Campaign Allegedly Impersonates Australian Government Services in Large-Scale Welfare Scam",
   "published_at": "2025-11-17"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.85,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "phishing",
  "government-impersonation",
  "mcto3001"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}