Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise

Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud. By saying so in a 25-page report [PDF], the biz aims to reassure the public and private sector that it can mitigate the harmful use of its technology with "sophisticated safety and security measures …

[Anonymous Coward]

Rest In Pieces

Great sales pitch of despair for that moribund LLM tech bubble as it nears its definitive hype horizon extinction burst point ...

You thought it had no true RoI did you (they imply), well do read through those 25 pages for a catalog of great ideas on how to successfully monetize Claude, through crime (yeah!), and associated anticrime (yippee!)!

They've set a perpetual motion machine killer-app snowball rolling to avalanche repeatedly through our privates and must be stopped, before we all spend perpetuity squirming in the painful discomfort of seeing our personal data exposed to the World, kidnapped, and ransomed, over and over and over again, imho.

They even make us pay a "Pro tier subscription" for the privilege ... how deviant!

[ecofeco]

El Reg reminder

El Reg gave us the heads up back in May of this year.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/13/ai_xforce_red_penetration/

And January.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/22/fbi_director_wef_tech_panel/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/06/chatgpt_cybercriminals_malicious_code/

[StewartWhite]

"Sophisticated?" I call shenanigans

"We successfully prevented a sophisticated North Korean [DPRK] threat actor from establishing operations..."

Sophisticated normally means that they pwned the account from publicly available info so I'm guessing Anthropic (no, after you Claude) just changed the password but as this is corporate PR they're somehow obliged to bigly it up.