Recent phishing attacks analysed by Barracuda Research found attackers combining two sets of tactics in a single email: social engineering aimed at the human recipient, and prompt injection attacks designed to influence their AI-powered email assistants. The findings are published in a new report. The ‘dual-target’ emails have multiple layers of content. One layer contains
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Barracuda has analyzed e-mails that contain, in addition to classical phishing, hidden prompt injections for AI assistants. The aim is, for example, payment fraud.