Imagine asking a trusted friend for help and being sent straight into a trap. That is the new reality of artificial intelligence chatbots. We increasingly rely on tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Google AI Overview to answer everyday questions, find customer service numbers, and make decisions. But a newly uncovered cyber campaign is quietly turning these supposedly smart assistants into unwitting accomplices for scammers. Researchers at Vigilance Security have identified a wide-ranging attack they call “Dark Sourcery,” in which malicious actors are deliberately poisoning the information that AI chatbots rely on. By flooding the internet with carefully crafted posts,…

The morning light was still soft over Phnom Penh when fifty young Cambodians began to gather for a workshop that would ask more of them than simply sitting through lectures. They were university students, recent graduates, and young professionals, and they had come with a sense of purpose that felt heavier than the usual networking event. These were people who had watched their parents struggle to tell real messages from fake ones. They had seen classmates share misinformation that spread fear through village chat groups. They had heard stories of neighbors losing money to callers whose voices sounded exactly like…