News Report claims 'the era of AI hacking has arrived' — good and bad actors leveraging AI in cybersecurity arms race

[Admin]

The security industry and the hackers they're supposed to defend against have both increased their use of AI as publicly available agents become more capable.

Report claims 'the era of AI hacking has arrived' — good and bad actors leveraging AI in cybersecurity arms race : Read more

 

[Hooda Thunkett]

"Earlier this month I reported on CrowdStrike's warning about how North Korean operatives are using generative AI to create resumes, social media accounts, and other materials that are used to trick Western tech companies into hiring them, at which point they shift to using the AI tooling to communicate with co-workers, write code, and otherwise maintain a facade of normalcy while they collect their paychecks."

That's clever. Like really clever. Like, "I'm jealous I didn't think of this to get a high paying tech job for myself" level clever.

 

[acadia11]

It’s been arrived. 2 things lead our technological advancement p0rn and criminal activity. You doubt me just look at the internet and bitcoin! You always thought it was military activity and you’d be wrong. Man is but a simple creature with basal desire.

 

[hotaru251]

That's clever. Like really clever. Like, "I'm jealous I didn't think of this to get a high paying tech job for myself" level clever.

i mean stuff like this happened w/o ai.

There was this guy who got hired for a job & he straight up collected his pay for doing nothing as he just outsourced the work to india. He ended up caught but still it worked for a good while.

 

[kjfatl]

This is the thing that might actually kill bitcoin as we know it. It will exist, with a feature that allows governments to track and claw back transactions.

 

[jp7189]

General LLMs (like chatgpt) are great for social engineering by non-native language speakers, but not very good at the technical aspects yet. Even asking for syntax for standard tools is pretty hit and miss.