Trellix found a criminal AI service, MessiahGPT, selling on BreachForums for as little as $8 a month, generating ransomware, phishing kits and rootkits on demand with no ethical guardrails claimed by its operator, and no coding skill required.
Category: AI & Emerging Tech
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AI-Powered Crypto Phishing Changes the Economics of Attacks
AI has cut the cost of a convincing crypto phishing lure to near zero, and Chainalysis data shows it: losses near $17 billion in 2025, impersonation scams up 1,400 percent, and AI enabled scams nearly five times more profitable than traditional ones.
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RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra Sets Out AI Playbook for Indian Banks, Puts Human Oversight First
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra told Indian bank boards that AI decisions still answer to a human: model inventories, board approved governance, explainability and override are now the baseline, with accountability resting on the bank, never the vendor.
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Pune Nurse Loses $4,700 to Deepfake Ratan Tata Investment Scam
A Pune nurse lost $4,700 investing in a scheme promoted by a deepfake video of the late Ratan Tata, the latest case in India's wave of AI generated celebrity endorsement fraud that has cost some victims well over $100,000 apiece.
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AI Is Rewriting Data Breach Economics, and BFSI and Energy Are Paying the Price
IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report finds AI-enabled attacks now cost $6 million on average and hit financial services and energy hardest, with India's breach costs also climbing as enterprises expand AI adoption across critical infrastructure.