A China-aligned cyber espionage group targeted U.S. artificial intelligence policy experts through phishing emails that impersonated prominent officials, economists and an employee of AI company Anthropic, according to research released Thursday by Proofpoint. The campaigns, which the cybersecurity company attributed to a group it calls TA419, sought access to cloud accounts held by people at think tanks, universities and law firms.
AI policy circles targeted in China-linked phishing operation
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