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incidents/AIR-2025-0162

AI-Enhanced Phishing Campaign Impersonates Australian Government Services

AI-enabled attack3 Confirmed exploitationAI phishing / social engineering

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.

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
17 Nov 2025
first reported
17 Nov 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
phishing · government-impersonation · mcto3001
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-11-17
    Purportedly AI-Enhanced Phishing Campaign Allegedly Impersonates Australian Government Services in Large-Scale Welfare Scam
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1275

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