Inside the AI-Assisted Phishing Campaign Targeting Taiwan Researchers with QR Codes
TechNadu · x · 2026-10-09
Cisco Talos details the UAT-11985 campaign against Taiwan researchers: AI-assisted phishing emails impersonating academic institutions, deceptive Google Forms links, and QR codes tampered within legitimate event posters.
The attackers ran a real-time adversary-in-the-middle kit to capture Google credentials and MFA challenges. Full attack chain and detection details are in the report.
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