Watch out - hackers are using AI to make phishing emails even more convincing

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• Hackers use AI tools to hide phishing code in SVG files disguised as business charts
• Malicious SVGs encoded payloads using business terms, decoded by hidden scripts to steal data
• Microsoft attributes the complex obfuscation to AI-generated code, not typical human-written malware

We’ve all heard of Gen AI being used to craft bodies of convincing phishing emails, however Microsoft researchers have now discovered a campaign in which threat actors took AI use in phishing a step further - to better hide malicious code in plain sight.