# OpenAI — Cyber Operation: Phishing and scripting support

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-phishing-and-scripting-support
- Record: https://forck.live/items/441-cyber-operation-phishing-and-scripting-support

OpenAI banned accounts that were involved in malicious activities using AI to support phishing and scripting, which overlapped with PRC intelligence requirements.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-phishing-and-scripting-support:

> OpenAI banned accounts involved in activity that overlapped with publicly reported threat groups and displayed hallmarks consistent with PRC intelligence requirements, using AI to support phishing and scripting workflows.

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