and say several state-sponsored hacking groups are using the latter’s generative AI (GAI) tools to power cyberattacks. The pair are detailing for the first time how hackers linked to foreign governments are using GAI in new research details. The mentioned groups have relations with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
According to the companies, government actors use GAI to debug code, search open source data for research targets, develop social engineering techniques, craft phishing emails and translate text. Powers Microsoft GAI products such as OpenAI ( ) report blocking access to GAI systems after learning that groups are using their tools.
The famous Russian band Forest Blizzard (better known as or APT 12) was one of the state actors said to be using the OpenAI platform. The hackers used the OpenAI tools “mainly for open source research on satellite communication protocols and radar imaging technology, as well as support for scripting tasks.” .
As part of its cyber security efforts, It tracks north of 300 hacker groups, including 160 nation-state actors. He shared his knowledge of hackers with OpenAI to help detect and shut down their accounts.
OpenAI says it is investing resources to identify and disrupt the activities of threat actors on its platforms. Its staff use a number of techniques to investigate hackers’ use of their systems, such as using their own models to track leaders, analyzing how they interact with OpenAI tools, and identifying their broader goals. Upon detection of such illegal users, OpenAI says it will disrupt their use of the platform by terminating their accounts, suspending services or minimizing their access to resources.
