How Criminals Are Using Generative AI

2 weeks ago AndyC

How Criminals Are Using Generative AI
There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools:

Key Takeaways:

Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of their industry counterparts because of the evolving nat

How Criminals Are Using Generative AI

There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools:

Key Takeaways:

Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of their industry counterparts because of the evolving nature of cybercrime.

Compared to last year, criminals seem to have abandoned any attempt at training real criminal large language models (LLMs). Instead, they are jailbreaking existing ones.

We are finally seeing the emergence of actual criminal deepfake services, with some bypassing user verification used in financial services.

Tags: artificial intelligence, cybercrime, LLM

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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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