US adversaries using AI for offensive cyber operations: Microsoft

US adversaries are using artificial intelligence (AI) for offensive cyber operations, according to Microsoft report It was released on Wednesday.

The report, compiled in collaboration with business partner OpenAI, said Microsoft had thwarted threats aimed at exploiting AI technology developed in-house.

“Cybercrime groups, nation-state threat actors, and other adversaries are exploring and exploring different AI technologies as they emerge, trying to understand the potential value to their operations and the security controls that need to be circumvented. testing,” the company said in the article. Report summary.

Hacking groups from four countries pose serious concerns for Western cybersecurity, according to the report. The report revealed the activities of two hacker groups affiliated with the Chinese government, as well as hacker groups from North Korea, Iran, and Russia.

North Korean hackers used AI to study the country’s military strengths and weaknesses.

A team from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps experimented with AI to find a way to go undetected.

Russian military intelligence agency Forest Blizzard, which is affiliated with the country’s intelligence gathering agency GRU, investigated radar and satellite technology for possible links to military operations in Ukraine.

And Chinese state-backed threat actor Charcoal Typhoon uses large-scale language models (LLMs) to support “tool development, scripting, and understanding of various commodity cybersecurity tools” to target social engineering. We have generated content that you can use.

Microsoft has disabled access to the tool by these groups. The company also said it would share information about the use of other tools and notify authors if they did.

Microsoft added that, in collaboration with OpenAI, it has not seen any significant attacks using LLM.

The Associated Press contributed.