(NewsNation) — OpenAI and Microsoft Threat Intelligence shut down accounts linked to five state-affiliated actors, some tied to China and Russia, trying to use AI for malicious reasons, the companies announced Wednesday.
“We terminated accounts associated with state-affiliated threat actors,” OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, said in an official statement. “Our findings show our models offer only limited, incremental capabilities for malicious cybersecurity tasks.”
The accounts terminated included China-affiliated Charcoal Typhoon and Salmon Typhoon, Iran-affiliated Crimson Sandstorm, North Korea-affiliated Emerald Sleet, and Russia-affiliated Forest Blizzard, according to OpenAI’s statement.
The entities used OpenAI services to research companies and cybersecurity tools, debug code, and likely create phishing campaigns, among other activities.
“Microsoft and OpenAI have not yet observed particularly novel or unique AI-enabled attack or abuse techniques resulting from threat actors’ usage of AI,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post published on Wednesday. “Microsoft and our partners continue to study this landscape closely.”
NewsNation has reached out to OpenAI and Microsoft for further comment but has not yet received a response from either company. Requests for information to the FBI and Homeland Security haven’t been immediately returned.
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