Novel DIG AI tool exploited in malicious cyber activities

Cybernews reports that illicit use of the newly emergent sophisticated and uncensored AI tool DIG AI has surged between October and December after responding to 10,000 prompts during its first day of operation in late September.

DIG AI, which is free to use unlike other malicious AI tools such as WormGPT and FraudGPT, has enabled not only the generation of backdoor- and malware-injecting scripts, but also responded to prompts on scams, fraud, prohibited substances, child sexual abuse material, and explosives, according to Resecurity researchers. While DIG AI was found to have taken up to five minutes to process certain prompts, operators could address the issue with a paid version of the tool.

"This is a new frontier of 'Not Good AI' where bad actors design, operate, and maintain custom infrastructure and even data centers like those used for bulletproof hosting, but for criminal AI to scale operations effectively, considering load, simultaneous requests, and multiple customers leveraging it," said Resecurity, which warned of the emergence of more AI-related security challenges next year.