MICROSOFT SAYS US RIVALS ARE BEGINNING TO USE GENERATIVE AI IN OFFENSIVE CYBER OPERATIONS
AppleMagazine|February 16, 2024
Microsoft said this week 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 artificial intelligence developed by the company and its business partner to mount or research offensive cyber operations.
MICROSOFT SAYS US RIVALS ARE BEGINNING TO USE GENERATIVE AI IN  OFFENSIVE CYBER OPERATIONS

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 has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, and Wednesday’s announcement coincided with its release of a report noting that generative AI is expected to enhance malicious social engineering, leading to more sophisticated deepfakes and voice cloning .

A threat to democracy in a year where over 50 countries will conduct elections, magnifying disinformation and already occurring,

Here are some examples Microsoft provided. In each case it said all generative AI accounts and assets of the named groups were disabled:

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