How attackers poison AI tools and defenses Cyberattackers are using generative AI to draft polished spam, create malicious code and write persuasive phishing lures. They are also learning how to turn AI systems themselves into points of compromise. Recent findings highlight this shift. Researchers from Columbia University and the University of Chicago studied malicious email traffic collected over three years. Barracuda Research has also tracked attackers exploiting weaknesses in AI assistants and tampering with AI-driven security tools. AI in email-based attacks Messages created with LLMs tend to be more formal, free of grammatical slips and linguistically sophisticated. That polish makes them more challenging for filters to catch and more convincing to recipients, especially when the…