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AI Site Builder Lovable Still Fuels Phishing and Malware Despite New Safeguards

Independent tests indicate Lovable still allows creation of fraudulent sites.

AI Website Builder Lovable Abused for Phishing and Malware Scams
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Overview

  • Proofpoint reports observing tens of thousands of Lovable-hosted threat URLs since February, with some campaigns sending hundreds of thousands of emails to 5,000 organizations.
  • A Tycoon phishing-as-a-service campaign used Lovable links with CAPTCHA gates to redirect to fake Microsoft logins and capture credentials, MFA tokens, and session cookies.
  • Other operations impersonated UPS to steal payment data forwarded to Telegram and Aave to prompt wallet connections, with roughly 3,500 and about 10,000 emails respectively, the latter via SendGrid.
  • Malware distribution included Lovable-hosted invoice pages delivering RAR archives from Dropbox that executed DOILoader and ultimately installed the zgRAT remote access trojan.
  • Lovable says it removed a phishing cluster with hundreds of domains and implemented real-time malicious-prompt detection plus daily scans, with additional account-abuse protections planned for the fall.