Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT
#AI #DualUse #DarkLLMs … Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 : The dual-use dilemma, traditionally associated with technologies such as nuclear physics, now extends to artificial intelligence. … Bluesky: @cybe...
Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT
As legitimate businesses purchase AI tools from some of the largest companies in the world, cybercriminals are accessing …
A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars
* “at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components” illegally sold to “a Russian cyber-tools broker” (for ~$1.3m). Obviously at a huge discount, bc super illegal — But separately “[...
Sources: spyware vendor Variston is closing after Google “burned” its name publicly in 2022; source: a disgruntled staffer sent its malicious code to Google
The company's apparent demise came after Google “burned” Variston's name publicly, exposing its hacking tools. … X: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : When Google publicly exposed Variston's...
The UK, the US, France, Poland, and other nations, plus Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others, sign a statement recognizing the need for more action on spyware
Governments have struggled to stop the spread of commercial hacking tools. — The United Kingdom, France and allied countries …
The Biden admin adds European spyware firms Intellexa and Cytrox to an export prohibition list blocking them from US tech, as concerns grow over hacking tools
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Tel Aviv-based QuaDream is shutting down, after Microsoft and Citizen Lab said its mercenary spyware is being used to hack journalists and others
It was reported last week that the Israeli firm's hacking tools have been used against journalists, opposition figures and advocacy organizations across at least 10 countries
Sources: in November 2021, five days after Joe Biden put NSO on a Commerce Department blocklist, a US government front company licensed NSO's geolocation tool
The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.
Biden signs an EO limiting US agencies' use of hacking tools from companies that are linked to human rights abuses or are deemed to pose national security risks
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal :
Researchers: cybercriminals have started using ChatGPT to create hacking tools and AI-generated malware code, and are testing the tool for dating scam chatbots
some with little or no coding experience—were using it to write software and emails that could be used for espionage, ransomware, malicious spam, and other malicious tasks.” https://research.checkpoin...