State-Sponsored Hackers Escalate Phishing Attacks Using Artificial Intelligence
February 18, 2024
State-sponsored hackers from North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China are reportedly leveraging artificial intelligence to conduct sophisticated phishing and social engineering attacks. They target global defense, cybersecurity, and cryptocurrency sectors, aiming to steal sensitive information and, in the case of North Korea, cryptocurrencies to help fund its illicit nuclear program.
- Alleged deployer
- north-korean-hackers, iranian-hackers, russian-hackers, chinese-hackers
- Alleged developer
- north-korean-government, iranian-government, russian-government, chinese-government
- Alleged harmed parties
- individual-professionals-on-linkedin, global-defense-companies, cybersecurity-firms, cryptocurrency-exchanges
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/644
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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