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AI-powered Christmas-themed phishing and social scam campaign

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A festive-season AI-powered scam campaign is flooding internet users with phishing, smishing, vishing, and fake e-commerce lures, raising the risk of credential theft and card fraud. The operation is using Christmas-themed emails and seasonal social media ads at scale, making the messages harder to distinguish from legitimate brand outreach. Its broad delivery mix and holiday timing show a coordinated effort to exploit urgent shopping and delivery behavior.

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  1. 16.12.2025 11:30 2 articles · 5mo ago

    Check Point warns of AI-powered Christmas scams

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    Check Point warned internet users about AI-powered Christmas scams that use phishing emails, seasonal social media ads, fake e-commerce stores, smishing messages, and vishing calls to impersonate real brands and logistics alerts from UPS and FedEx. The vendor said it detected 33,500 unique Christmas-themed phishing emails and over 10,000 seasonal social media ads in the past 14 days, with AI helping attackers write flawless local-language lures, build fake checkout pages, and create deepfake audio.

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