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incidents/AIR-2025-0172

Hack Club Founder Targeted in AI-Driven Voice Phishing Attack

AI-enabled attack3 Confirmed exploitationAI phishing / social engineeringDeepfake fraud

Cybercriminals used voice cloning and spoofed caller ID to impersonate support staff in an AI-assisted phishing attack targeting a tech organization founder. The attack was aborted when inconsistencies raised the victim's suspicions.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • AI phishing / social engineeringprimary
    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
Google, Individuals
products
Google Assistant, Google Workspace
incident date
20 Feb 2025
first reported
20 Feb 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
voice-cloning · vishing · phishing · spoofing
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-02-20
    Cybercriminals Reportedly Exploited Google’s G.Co Subdomain and Spoofed Caller ID in AI-Driven Phishing Attack on Hack Club Founder
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/942

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