{"id":1027124,"date":"2026-08-07T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027124"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:32:17","slug":"hacked-ai-email-accounts-can-help-attackers-steal-250000-through-ceo-fraud-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/hacked-ai-email-accounts-can-help-attackers-steal-250000-through-ceo-fraud-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacked AI email accounts can help attackers steal $250,000 through CEO fraud: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hacked artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled email accounts can accelerate cyberattacks. A new report from Barracuda&#8217;s Red Team says attackers who gain access to AI-enabled business email accounts can use built-in AI assistants to identify sensitive information, impersonate executives and redirect payments. In a controlled proof-of-concept, researchers demonstrated how a compromised employee account could escalate into CEO fraud and lead to the theft of $247,500 (nearly $250,000) through a fraudulent wire transfer.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nThe report says the risk does not stem from AI creating new privileges, but from helping attackers use the permissions they already have more quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacked artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled email accounts can accelerate cyberattacks. A new report from Barracuda&#8217;s Red Team says attackers who gain access to AI-enabled business email accounts can use built-in AI assistants to identify sensitive information, impersonate executives and redirect payments. In a controlled proof-of-concept, researchers demonstrated how a compromised employee account could escalate into CEO fraud and lead to the theft of $247,500 (nearly $250,000) through a fraudulent wire transfer. \u200b The report says the risk does not stem from AI creating new privileges, but from helping attackers use the permissions they already have more quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027128,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027124\/revisions\/1027128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}