Chinese and Iranian Hackers Are Using US AI Products To Bolster Cyberattacks (msn.com) 19
Hackers linked to China, Iran and other foreign governments are using new AI technology to bolster their cyberattacks against U.S. and global targets, according to U.S. officials and new security research. WSJ: In the past year, dozens of hacking groups in more than 20 countries turned to Google's Gemini chatbot to assist with malicious code writing, hunts for publicly known cyber vulnerabilities and research into organizations to target for attack, among other tasks, Google's cyber-threat experts said. While Western officials and security experts have warned for years about the potential malicious uses of AI, the findings released Wednesday from Google are some of the first to shed light on how exactly foreign adversaries are leveraging generative AI to boost their hacking prowess.
This week, the China-built AI platform DeepSeek upended international assumptions about how far along Beijing might be the AI arms race, creating global uncertainty about a technology that could revolutionize work, diplomacy and warfare. Expand article logo Continue reading Groups with known ties to China, Iran, Russia and North Korea all used Gemini to support hacking activity, the Google report said. They appeared to treat the platform more as a research assistant than a strategic asset, relying on it for tasks intended to boost productivity rather than to develop fearsome new hacking techniques. All four countries have generally denied U.S. hacking allegations.
This week, the China-built AI platform DeepSeek upended international assumptions about how far along Beijing might be the AI arms race, creating global uncertainty about a technology that could revolutionize work, diplomacy and warfare. Expand article logo Continue reading Groups with known ties to China, Iran, Russia and North Korea all used Gemini to support hacking activity, the Google report said. They appeared to treat the platform more as a research assistant than a strategic asset, relying on it for tasks intended to boost productivity rather than to develop fearsome new hacking techniques. All four countries have generally denied U.S. hacking allegations.
No! It can't be! (Score:2)
Headline update: Hackers use new tools to do things you use tools for. Outrage ensues.
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I'm sure US & allies doing the same to snoop Xi and confound Putie's invasion.
Same as it ever was.
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Oh, wait...
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Those damn tool using apes!
Re: Can the AI alert when it's being used for badn (Score:2)
No.
First they would need to define badness. Not being funny but what we perceive as bad / illegal is just a matter of perception.
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The honey-pot bot. [fandom.com]
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Market is saved! Low ROI #'s be damned! (Score:5, Funny)
Finally a profitable use for AI!
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Addendum: unlike many "real" tasks, wide-ranging hacking and phishing attacks can have lots of fails as long as hits are not more expensive to achieve compared with traditional techniques.
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Fraud IS the original and primary use case for AI.
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no, that would be kinky porn.
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makes sense.
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I know the article snippets get posted pretty much verbatim
But it seems to me that the posting editor ought to read it enough to catch that the submitter's cut-and-paste picked up some inter-paragraph HTML buttons and edit their button-text out of the article posting.
Why not build smart smart firewall (Score:2)
Gemini? (Score:2)
Haha nice way to introduce a new product google. Turned off in settings, hopefully it stays turned off.
ALL Hackers use AI to Bolster Cyberattacks (Score:2)
So sick and tired of the US Centric Narrative that is hypocritical and plainly obvious as Scare tactics.
ALL of them are bastards.
Come on Slashdot - you used to be 'News for Nerds, Stuff that matters' and now you've become 'Disseminator of US establishment tech propaganda'.
As a 'foreigner' it's pretty obvious garbage...