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incidents/AIR-2025-0109

FBI Reports Adversarial AI Usage in Cyberattacks and Infrastructure Intrusions

AI-enabled attack3 Confirmed exploitationAI-assisted intrusionAI phishing / social engineeringDeepfake fraud

The FBI reported that threat actors and state-sponsored groups are increasingly integrating AI tools into reconnaissance, phishing, and infrastructure intrusions. The documented capabilities assist in active cyber operations against targets.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • AI-assisted intrusionprimary
    Threat actors using AI tooling in reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement or operations.
  • AI phishing / social engineering
    Phishing, lures and social engineering produced or personalised at scale with AI.
  • Deepfake fraud
    Synthetic voice, video or images used to impersonate people for fraud, extortion or access.
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
Enterprise deployment
incident date
29 Apr 2025
first reported
29 Apr 2025
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.90 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
fbi · state-sponsored · cyber-operations · ai-assisted-attacks
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-04-29
    FBI Reports AI Use by Threat Actors in Broader Cyber Context Including Infrastructure Intrusions
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1055

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