The expansion of Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionizing web-based platforms, offering capabilities like code assistance, natural language generation, chatbot interaction and automated website creation.
The high tech sector dominates GenAI tool use, accounting for over 70%, concentrated in text-generation applications (such as writing assistants and AI chatbots) and media-generation tools.
AI-powered website builders enable criminals to create realistic phishing attacks, clone trusted brands and create websites at scale without using code.
We discovered phishing pages hosted on AI-powered writing assistant platforms that threat actors used as a hosting service for malicious content, with no clear signs of AI involvement.
Palo Alto Networks customers are protected from these threats by the following products: Advanced URL Filtering and Advanced DNS Security identify known domains and URLs associated with this activity as malicious.
