Microsoft Sues Hacking Group Exploiting Azure AI for Harmful Content Creation
A "foreign-based threat–actor group" is being sued by Microsoft for using a hacking-as-a-service infrastructure to purposefully circumvent the security measures of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) services and create offensive and damaging content.
The threat actors "developed sophisticated software that exploited exposed customer credentials scraped from public websites," according to the tech giant's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), and "sought to identify and unlawfully access accounts with certain generative AI services and purposely alter the capabilities of those services."
After using these services, like Azure OpenAI Service, the enemies made money by selling the access to other malevolent actors and giving them comprehensive instructions on how to utilize these special...