Microsoft Files Lawsuit Against Hacking Group Exploiting AI
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🔒🚫 Microsoft takes legal action against hacking group exploiting AI services. The tech giant has filed a lawsuit against a foreign-based group accused of creating a hacking-as-a-service infrastructure to bypass safety controls of its generative AI services, including Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit discovered that the group exploited stolen customer credentials to access and manipulate these services, generating harmful content for sale to other malicious actors. The company has since revoked the group’s access, implemented new security measures, and seized a key website involved in the operation. Microsoft’s findings indicate a broader trend of threat actors abusing AI tools for malicious purposes, with evidence of systematic API key theft affecting multiple U.S. companies.
