AI · 16h ago

Dark Sourcery Poisons AI Search Results

Vigilance Security says Dark Sourcery has flooded ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Google AI Overview with tens of thousands of fake pages, dragging at least 374 companies into a phishing-and-misinformation campaign. The targets include major airlines, banks, travel companies, and software vendors.

Timeline

• Sep 23 Reported by Dark Reading

Sources

1 source covering this story

• Dark Reading Sep 23

  Attackers Manipulate AI Chatbots in Mass Disinformation, Phishing Campaign

  Hackers are poisoning ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview answers by seeding the Web with malicious links and data and then optimizing the content.

Entities

• Dark Sourcery

Part of the PlainSec briefing for 2026-09-24

Editions

• Briefing for 2026-09-24

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