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Large Language Models (LLMs) Are Falling for Phishing Scams: What Happens When AI Gives You the Wrong URL? 6 stats

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Out of 131 hostnames provided by the LLM in response to natural language queries for 50 brands, a significant 34% were not controlled by the brands at all.

NetcraftLarge Language Models (LLMs) Are Falling for Phishing Scams: What Happens When AI Gives You the Wrong URL? ·Jul 1, 2025
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Threat actors have generated more than 17,000 AI-written GitBook phishing pages specifically targeting crypto users.

NetcraftLarge Language Models (LLMs) Are Falling for Phishing Scams: What Happens When AI Gives You the Wrong URL? ·Jul 1, 2025
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29% of the suggested incorrect domains given by an LLM in return to a query were unregistered, parked, or had no active content, leaving them vulnerable to takeover by malicious actors

NetcraftLarge Language Models (LLMs) Are Falling for Phishing Scams: What Happens When AI Gives You the Wrong URL? ·Jul 1, 2025
AILLM

LLM model returned the correct URL for brands two-thirds (66%) of the time.

NetcraftLarge Language Models (LLMs) Are Falling for Phishing Scams: What Happens When AI Gives You the Wrong URL? ·Jul 1, 2025
AILLM

In a sophisticated campaign to poison AI coding assistants, Netcraft uncovered an effort where an attacker promoted a fake API. At least five victims were found to have copied this malicious code into their own public projects, some of which showed signs of being built using AI coding tools.

NetcraftLarge Language Models (LLMs) Are Falling for Phishing Scams: What Happens When AI Gives You the Wrong URL? ·Jul 1, 2025
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5% of the suggested incorrect domains given by an LLM in return to a query pointed users to completely unrelated, albeit legitimate, businesses

NetcraftLarge Language Models (LLMs) Are Falling for Phishing Scams: What Happens When AI Gives You the Wrong URL? ·Jul 1, 2025
AILLM