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4 held in China for using ChatGPT to execute ransomware attack


4 held in China for using ChatGPT to execute ransomware attack

4 held in China for using ChatGPT to execute ransomware attackIANS

Chinese authorities have arrested four people for developing ransomware with the help of OpenAI’s AI chatbot ChatGPT, the first such case in the country.

ChatGPT is not officially available in the country and Beijing has been cracking down on foreign-based AI tech, reports South China Morning Post.

The attack was reported by an unidentified company in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, which had its systems blocked by ransomware.

The hackers demanded 20,000 Tether, a cryptocurrency stablecoin pegged one-to-one to the US dollar, to restore access, according to Xinhua news agency.

The police arrested two suspects in Beijing and two others in Inner Mongolia, who admitted to “writing versions of ransomware, optimising the program with the help of ChatGPT, conducting vulnerability scans, gaining access through infiltration, implanting ransomware, and carrying out extortion.”

OpenAI has blocked internet protocol addresses in China, Hong Kong and sanctioned markets like North Korea and Iran.

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“Some users get around restrictions using virtual private networks (VPNs) and a phone number from a supported region,” according to the report.

In May, police in northwestern Gansu province arrested a man who allegedly used ChatGPT to generate fake news about a train crash and disseminated it online.

In August, Hong Kong police arrested six people who used deepfake technology to create fake images of identification documents used for loan scams targeting banks.

(With inputs from IANS)

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On 29 March Sky Mavis, the creator of Axie Infinity, announced that the game was hacked on 23 March and approximately $600 million were stolen from a “bridge,” that authorized crypto being sent from one blockchain to another. The value presently stands to be around $625 million. This March hack of Blockchain Project Ronin, raised several questions about security and privacy issues and was one of the largest hacks that knocked the crypto world.

The only solution for Sky Mavis to prevent and protect themselves from such attacks was to come up with a more secured Ethereum blockchain, as the one they used was relatively slow and expensive and hence made it easier for the hackers to exploit the weakness and strike.

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The North Korea flag flutters next to concertina wire at the North Korean embassy.
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“The United States is aware that the DPRK has increasingly relied on illicit activities – including cybercrime – to generate revenue for its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs as it tries to evade robust US and UN sanctions,” a Treasury Department spokesperson said, using the initials of North Korea’s official name.

As per a draft resolution reviewed by the Reuters news agency the United States is urging the UN Security Council to blacklist the Lazarus Group and further go ahead with the freezing of its assets.

According to a US military report of 2020, North Korea’s hacking programme has grown immensely from the mid-1990s to today being known as the Bureau Unit, a…

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