There have been many articles written about the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) being used to program or assist cybercrime, but very little evidence of it actually happening. Here is a case where it has reportedly happened. Kyodo News reports:
A 17-year-old boy was served an arrest warrant on Thursday on suspicion of breaching the server of a major internet cafe operator in Japan using a program generated by a conversational artificial intelligence, an investigative source said.
The move comes after Kaikatsu Frontier Inc., the operator of Kaikatsu Club internet cafe and FiT24 fitness gym chains, suffered a cyberattack in January, with its parent company announcing the attack may have resulted in the leakage of personal information of 7.3 million customers.
The high school student in Osaka is suspected of sending unauthorized commands to Kaikatsu Frontier’s server some 7.24 million times to export personal data, thereby obstructing its business operations, the source said.
Read more at Kyodo News.
