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In a coordinated effort, the FBI, working with Google and Black Lotus Labs, has dismantled a massive Chinese phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise with thousands of phishing websites used to steal credit card data and passwords. [...]
Fraudsters Tokenize Stolen Cards Into Attacker WalletsGoogle Threat Intelligence Group warned that Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service platforms are using AI, encrypted messaging and real-time OTP interception to bypass multifactor authentication and provision stolen payment cards into attacker-controlled digital wallets worldwide.
DeepSeek, MoonShot AI, MiniMax Used 24K Fake Accounts in CampaignAnthropic has accused three Chinese AI firms of running coordinated, large-scale operations to steal capabilities from its Claude models. The U.S.-based company said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax are conducting "industrial-scale campaigns" using tens of thousands of fraudulent accounts.
Anthropic accused DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of illicitly using Claude to steal some of the AI model’s capabilities
Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise A Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America's critical infrastructure used Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to auto-analyze vulnerabilities and plan cyberattacks against US organizations, the company says.…
Linwei Ding Faces Decades in Prison for Trade Secret Theft, EspionageA federal jury in San Francisco convicted a former Google software engineer of stealing thousands of pages of confidential AI data and transferring it to Chinese technology companies. Linwei Ding is guilty of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of trade secret theft.
Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, has been found guilty of stealing trade secrets for China
A U.S. federal jury has convicted Linwei Ding, a former software engineer at Google, for stealing AI supercomputer data from his employer and secretly sharing it with Chinese tech firms. [...]
A former Google engineer accused of stealing thousands of the company's confidential documents to build a startup in China has been convicted in the U.S., the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor covert functionality to siphon developer data to China-based servers
Two malicious extensions in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times, exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers. [...]
Researchers Weaponize False Data to Wreck Stolen AI SystemsChinese and Singaporean researchers have developed a defense mechanism that poisons proprietary knowledge graph data, making such stolen information worthless to thieves who attempt to deploy it in unauthorized artificial intelligence systems.
Microsoft Sees Cyberespionage Group Lifting API Keys and Credentials for CustomersA prolific cyberespionage group tied to Beijing appears to have increased its targeting of widely used IT tools and service providers. Microsoft said the group's tactics now include stealing API keys and credentials from providers to gain access to providers' downstream customers' infrastructure.
They're good at zero-day exploits, too Silk Typhoon, the Chinese government crew believed to be behind the December US Treasury intrusions, has been abusing stolen API keys and cloud credentials in ongoing attacks targeting IT companies and state and local government agencies since late 2024, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.…
Hackers Sought Specific Generative AI Software at Leading US Firm: ProofpointA possible Chinese threat actor is using a variant of the Gh0st RAT malware to steal information from artificial intelligence experts in U.S. companies, federal agencies and academia. On the criminal group's target list was a "leading U.S.-based AI organization."
Ding Accused of Stealing Data on 'Brain' of Google's Supercomputing Data CentersFederal authorities have accused a Chinese national who worked as a CTO in a Google supercomputer data center of stealing the company's proprietary artificial intelligence secrets and sharing them with Chinese companies, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced the unsealing of an indictment against Linwei (Leon) Ding, 38, a former software engineer at Google, suspected of stealing Google AI trade secrets for Chinese companies. [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of a 38-year-old Chinese national and a California resident of allegedly stealing proprietary information from Google while covertly working for two China-based tech companies
Alleged Chinese spy Linwei Ding is accused of stealing proprietary IP from Google
Moonlighted for two PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security The US Department of Justice on Wednesday revealed an indictment that charges a former Google employee with leaking the ad giant’s AI tech to two Chinese companies – after easily defeating the Big G’s security controls.…