{
 "id": "AIR-2024-0063",
 "slug": "akirabot-operators-leverage-openai-api-to-automate-widesprea",
 "title": "AkiraBot Operators Leverage OpenAI API to Automate Widespread Contact Form Spam",
 "summary": "Threat actors deployed a bot framework integrated with OpenAI's API to bypass CAPTCHAs and generate automated spam across tens of thousands of websites. OpenAI revoked the associated API key following notification by security researchers.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "ai_phishing_social_engineering",
  "other"
 ],
 "severity": 3,
 "targets": [
  "individual_victims",
  "enterprise_deployment"
 ],
 "products": [
  "ChatGPT API",
  "AkiraBot"
 ],
 "incident_date": "2024-09-01",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2024-09-01",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1365",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale",
   "published_at": "2024-09-01"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.95,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "akirabot",
  "spam",
  "openai",
  "captcha-bypass"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}