Summary: Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against four foreign developers and two U.S. individuals for unlawfully accessing and reconfiguring generative AI services to create harmful content, such as deepfakes, which they resold. The lawsuit reveals that these developers were part of a cybercrime network, Storm-2139, which exploited stolen customer credentials. Microsoft is cooperating with law enforcement and has taken steps to disrupt their operations, including seizing a related website.
Affected: Microsoft Azure OpenAI services
Keypoints :
- Developers created and resold access to modified AI tools for generating harmful content.
- Microsoft identified the involved developers as part of a global cybercrime network called Storm-2139.
- The lawsuit has led to internal conflict within the cybercrime group, as members turned against each other amid increasing scrutiny.
Source: https://therecord.media/microsoft-names-developers-behind-illicit-ai-used-in-deepfake-scheme