AI is becoming part of everyday criminal workflows
Underground forums include long threads about chatbots drafting phishing emails, generating code snippets, and coaching social engineering calls. A new study examined conversations captured between January 1, 2025 and July 31, 2025 across dozens of cybercrime forums to map how AI tools are entering day to day criminal operations. The dataset includes 163 discussion threads drawn from 21 forums, totaling 2,264 messages posted by 1,661 distinct contributors. Much of the activity clustered on well known … More
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