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Fake ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude ads used in phishing to steal ad accounts

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Security vendor Island published a report describing a phishing campaign in which attackers impersonate ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Manus and other major AI brands, advertising fake “AI marketing tools” that prompt agency staff, media buyers and manager-account admins to connect their Google account. Clicking “connect” launches a browser-in-the-browser (BitB) phishing page with a live human operator who fakes mistyped-password errors and chooses which MFA screen the victim sees, harvesting credentials and one-time codes. The lures target advertising accounts specifically because they carry stored payment methods, approved budgets and, for manager accounts, access to multiple client accounts; the campaign was still running and had not been disrupted when the researchers wrote the report.

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It is a reminder to treat offers of AI integrations as account-access requests and to adopt phishing-resistant authentication such as origin-bound passkeys.

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