North Korea and Iran using AI for hacking, Microsoft says

Microsoft said in a blogpost that the techniques were ‘early-stage’ and 'not particularly novel or unique’. Photograph: Getty Images

US adversaries – chiefly Iran and North Korea, and to a lesser extent Russia and China – are beginning to use generative artificial intelligence to mount or organize offensive cyber operations, Microsoft said on Wednesday.

Microsoft said it detected and disrupted, in collaboration with business partner OpenAI, many threats that used or attempted to exploit AI technology they had developed.