Microsoft and OpenAI Say US Rivals Are Beginning To Use Generative AI in Offensive Cyber Operations (apnews.com) 15
Microsoft said Wednesday it had detected and disrupted instances of U.S. adversaries -- chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China -- using or attempting to exploit generative AI developed by the company and its business partner to mount or research offensive cyber operations. From a report: The techniques Microsoft observed, in collaboration with its partner OpenAI, represent an emerging threat and were neither "particularly novel or unique," the Redmond, Washington, company said in a blog post. But the blog does offer insight into how U.S. geopolitical rivals have been using large-language models to expand their ability to more effectively breach networks and conduct influence operations.
Microsoft said the "attacks" detected all involved large-language models the partners own and said it was important to expose them publicly even if they were "early-stage, incremental moves." Cybersecurity firms have long used machine-learning on defense, principally to detect anomalous behavior in networks. But criminals and offensive hackers use it as well, and the introduction of large-language models led by OpenAI's ChatGPT upped that game of cat-and-mouse.
Microsoft said the "attacks" detected all involved large-language models the partners own and said it was important to expose them publicly even if they were "early-stage, incremental moves." Cybersecurity firms have long used machine-learning on defense, principally to detect anomalous behavior in networks. But criminals and offensive hackers use it as well, and the introduction of large-language models led by OpenAI's ChatGPT upped that game of cat-and-mouse.
Microsoft and its subsidiary: (Score:2)
Dear government, here's some fearmongering about vaporware, please trust us that it is a good idea to throw some money at us.
Completely unsurprising (Score:4, Interesting)
There is nothing unexpected about this; it's completely obvious that generative AI would be used to supplement troll farms, malware and disinformation spreading, and general disruption of the US and allies. Anybody who didn't see this coming was simply not paying attention.
Only surprise here is that Iran and North Korea were top on the list. Would have expected Russia to be the number one in disruption. But maybe this is just because the Russian use of AI tools was better camouflaged because their hackers are professional.
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I thought it was Macedonia, like in 2016.
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I thought it was Macedonia, like in 2016.
Alexander? That you?
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You haven't seen any of the press the Macedonian 'ackers got back then?
https://www.cambridge.org/core... [cambridge.org]
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There is nothing unexpected about this; it's completely obvious that generative AI would be used to supplement troll farms, malware and disinformation spreading, and general disruption of the US and allies. Anybody who didn't see this coming was simply not paying attention.
Only surprise here is that Iran and North Korea were top on the list. Would have expected Russia to be the number one in disruption. But maybe this is just because the Russian use of AI tools was better camouflaged because their hackers are professional.
But the USA isn't using them at all!! In fact, the USA doesn't have any offensive cyber operations, they're the *good* guys! LOL Who ever would believe that shit?
Microsoft and OpenAI say... (Score:2)
...and the rest of the world says, "er yeah, duh!"
We've all had an AI-generated spam/scam email at this point. So far they're easy to spot a mile away, but doubtless that'll change as time goes on.
Missing keyword? (Score:2)
The only reason "Also" wonâ(TM)t work as a missing keyword is because the US is already well ahead of the rivals on this front.
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The only reason "Also" wonâ(TM)t work as a missing keyword is because the US is already well ahead of the rivals on this front.
The thing is, Western media is muzzled so they can't mention the US and allies offensive cyber operations, its as if they don't exist.
You literally never see an APT thats attributed as a US state sponsored group.
Sure... they don't exist... right.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
It's not the cold war anymore, it's the AI war (Score:1)
I've been saying for the last decade that AI is the new warzone. China has been using it to track people, and google/meta/microsoft have been using it to track people.
Anyone saying that AI needs to slow down, doesn't understand the reality. If we slow down, we fall behind.
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Yeah I remember you saying that a decade ago. Damn, wish we all had listened.
Quick! Regulate our competition (Score:2)