Based on our collaboration and information sharing with Microsoft, we have disrupted five nation-state-affiliated malicious actors. Iran-related threat actor known as Crimson Sandstorm. A North Korean-related actor known as Emerald Mizore. and a Russian actor known as Forest Blizzard. His OpenAI account, which was identified as being associated with these attackers, was terminated.
These attackers commonly sought to use OpenAI services to query open source information, translate it, find coding errors, and perform basic coding tasks.
in particular:
- Charcoal Typhoon used our services to research various companies and cybersecurity tools, debug code and generate scripts, and create content that could be used in phishing campaigns.
- Salmon Typhoon uses our services to translate technical papers, obtain public information on multiple intelligence agencies and regional threat actors, provide coding assistance, and research common methods of concealing processes on its systems. I did.
- Crimson Sandstorm used our services for script support related to app and web development, to generate content likely for spear phishing campaigns, and to investigate common ways malware evades detection.
- Emerald Sleet identifies experts and organizations focused on defense issues in the Asia-Pacific region, helps them understand publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, assists them with basic scripting tasks, and helps them understand the risks that can be used in phishing campaigns. You used our services to draft sexual content.
- Forest Blizzard used our services primarily for open source research on satellite communications protocols and radar imaging technology, as well as support for scripting tasks.
For additional technical details regarding the nature of threat actors and their activities, please refer to the following links: Microsoft blog post It was published today.
The activities of these parties are consistent with previous Red Team assessments. In collaboration with external cybersecurity experts, our research shows that GPT-4 exceeds the capabilities already achievable with publicly available non-AI-powered tools for malicious cybersecurity tasks. It turns out that it only offers limited additional functionality..