Research demo
LOLCopilot: turning Microsoft 365 Copilot into an automated spear-phishing machine
AIR-2024-0030 AIR record · 2024-08-microsoft-copilot-lolcopilot
From the supporting source
Dubbed LOLCopilot, the red-teaming code Bargury created can—crucially, once a hacker has access to someone’s work email—use Copilot to see who you email regularly, draft a message mimicking your writing style (including emoji use), and send a personalized blast that can include a malicious link or attached malware.wired.com
The record
Disclosed
2024-08-08
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Risk domain
Privacy › Data exfiltration channels
Also touches
Human manipulation
System type
Generative model
Who acted
Agent acted — Copilot composed and sent the spear-phishing emails
Attack surface
Enterprise assistant
Autonomy level
Assistant
Initial vector
Compromised user account
Impact type
Phishing at scale, Data exfiltration
Confidence
High
Submitted by
EAI Internal
Crosswalk
- OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026)
- ASI02 – Tool Misuse and Exploitation
- MITRE ATLAS
- AML.T0024 – Exfiltration via AI Inference API
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 4.2
- EU AI Act
- Article 10
- ISO/IEC
- TR 24028; 23894
- AIUC-1
- A. Data & Privacy
- Scope
- tool misuse
- Mitigation
- Monitor network traffic for anomalous patterns; Restrict egress destinations.
- Taxonomy
- Enkrypt AI agent risk taxonomy · Black-Box Red Teaming of Agentic AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Framework for Automated Risk Discovery
Blast radius
every contact of a compromised Copilot-enabled mailbox
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
Microsoft 365 security protections
Guardrail kinds
Unknown
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
Surfaced via the AIAAIC repository entry 'Microsoft Copilot can be turned into automated phishing machine'. Michael Bargury / Zenity, Black Hat USA 2024.
Supporting sources
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "LOLCopilot: turning Microsoft 365 Copilot into an automated spear-phishing machine". AIR, AIR-2024-0030. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2024-0030/ (accessed 2026-10-19).