Fake AI API key expiry / rotation phishing — impersonates OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI Studio, Mistral, Cohere, or Groq with a key-expiry or mandatory-rotation narrative + link to non-official API dashboard. Proofpoint Q1 2026 (+480%); Abnormal Security Mar 2026; SANS ISC Feb 2026.
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What this tier means
High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.
How Gorganizer detects this
Emails impersonating AI platform providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI Studio, Mistral, Cohere, Groq, Replicate, Together AI, Hugging Face) claiming the recipient's API key has expired, is about to expire, or must be rotated due to a security policy. The email provides a link to "regenerate" or "verify" the key, leading to a credential-harvesting page or fake API dashboard. This is distinct from fake-ai-api-key-leak-lure (breach notification narrative) and fake-openai-anthropic-ai-api-billing-phish (billing suspension). Proofpoint Q1 2026 documented a 480% increase in this attack class targeting software engineers and data scientists; SANS ISC identified 200+ unique phishing domains spoofing platform.openai.com and console.anthropic.com within a 30-day window.
False-positive guard
Every signal in Gorganizer feeds a multi-module score — never a sole verdict. This is a threat-tier signal — it adds a strong contribution to the trash score. The full pipeline still requires convergence across multiple modules + a margin over the safety floor before deletion happens, and Gmail's trash (30-day recovery) is always used — never permanent delete.
About the scoring engine
Gorganizer's scoring engine emits over 1,800 signals across six modules — headers, sender, subject, body, attachments, and structural metadata. Every email is scored by every module independently; the final verdict requires multiple modules to agree and the trash score to beat the safety floor by a margin.
Sacred safety guards — never delete starred emails, replies, calendar invites, receipts/invoices, or attachments — apply unconditionally regardless of any signal.
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