AI-driven voice phishing scam attempts to breach security expert's Gmail

# AI-driven voice phishing scam attempts to breach security expert's Gmail

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/ai-driven-voice-phishing-scam-attempts-to-breach-security-ex · AIR-2024-0044 · closed 2024-10-21

- Lane: Breaches & attacks
- Severity: 3 (Confirmed exploitation)
- Fix status: No fix needed
- First reported: 2024-10-07
- AI role: AI-enabled attack
- Products: Gmail

## Summary

Scammers used synthetic voice generation to impersonate a Google representative in a phone call to steal Gmail credentials from a security expert. The attack failed to compromise the account.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2024-10-07: Purportedly AI-Driven Phishing Scam Uses Spoofed Google Call to Attempt Gmail Breach of Security Expert (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/839)

## Sources

- 2024-10-07 AI Incident Database: Purportedly AI-Driven Phishing Scam Uses Spoofed Google Call to Attempt Gmail Breach of Security Expert https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/839

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