Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing
Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached
A suspected Chinese espionage group, TA419, impersonated AI policy figures, including a senior Anthropic executive and a former White House official, in phishing campaigns targeting AI policy experts at US universities, think tanks, and law firms. The majority of these campaigns took place in July 2026, according to security researchers at Proofpoint.
The group used shortened URLs promising additional details to redirect victims to an attacker-controlled domain, which conducted a Cloudflare Turnstile check and ultimately stole the victim's cloud account login information. This tactic was employed to gain access to Microsoft 365/Entra ID through the OfficeHome application.
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