Cryptocurrency: North Korea is using artificial intelligence for its hacking attacks, Google says

Artificial intelligence in the service of evil. North Korean hackers with Lazarus are behind numerous breaches in our ecosystem and Google researchers recently made a discovery. A hacking group working for Pyongyang is now reportedly using artificial intelligence to improve its attack software. And this is not very good news.

Key points of this article:

• North Korean hackers from Lazarus used artificial intelligence to improve their malware software.
• Google identified these malware as using language patterns to make code unreadable and harder to detect.

Lazarus hackers use artificial intelligence to improve their malware That’s why the Google Threat Intelligence Group teams are sounding the alarm after discovering several malware that use artificial intelligence . These malware use language patterns such as Gemini or Qwen2.5-Coder, to generate or obfuscate code (ie to make it unreadable).

This method got its name from Google “just-in-time code generation” . In practice, this allows hackers constantly improve their malware, for example by making it more difficult detection .

Among the detected groups Google singled out UNC1069 (Masan) – North Korean hacker group They are particularly known for their hacking campaigns targeting companies in our ecosystem.

According to Google teams, North Korean hackers are using artificial intelligence to improve their malware.

Artificial intelligence: a double-edged sword According to Google, Toulours also used Gemini to find data of wallet programs, create scripts to access encrypted storage and creation multilingual phishing content Since its inception, artificial intelligence has become an indispensable tool for many developers.

Unfortunately, it is also used hackers . Last February, researchers Check Point are already sounding the alarm. They have discovered numerous hackers using ChatGPT to create malware . More recently, generative AI has come under scrutiny for being used to create fraudulent NFTs.

Therefore, hackers use absolutely every tool available to them to achieve their goals, from high technologies such as artificial intelligence to more rudimentary methods. We recently learned that they were trying to infiltrate crypto startups pretending to be technicians or engineers or even creating fake interviews to lure their victims into a trap .

Source: journalducoin.com