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incidents/AIR-2025-0137

AI-Enabled Clickbait Campaign Targets Adolescents with Malware

AI-enabled attack3 Confirmed exploitationAI phishing / social engineering

An overseas network deployed AI-generated headlines and fake local likenesses to lure teens to malicious websites. The campaign distributed harmful advertisements and malware to affected users.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • AI phishing / social engineering
    Phishing, lures and social engineering produced or personalised at scale with AI.
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Individuals
incident date
30 May 2025
first reported
30 May 2025
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.85 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
clickbait · malware · social_engineering
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-05-30
    Reported AI-Generated Clickbait Targets Adolescents in Rockingham County, North Carolina
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1090

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