North Korea has long used hacker attacks on any capitalist country and has received billions of dollars from cryptocurrency theft used to develop missiles.
US Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger told reporters that North Korea has increased its cyber capabilities, including the active use of artificial intelligence, to continue the cyber war it has been waging with civilized countries for many years. This was reported by the Venturebeat portal.
This appears to be the first time a US government official has publicly confirmed the use of AI in cyber warfare, the portal said. Using artificial intelligence to speed up the process of writing malicious hacker code could significantly increase North Korea’s offensive cyber capabilities, the official explained. With machine learning support, North Korean hackers “will be able to more effectively discover and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems around the world.”
Anne Neuberger said the potential impacts on international trade were serious. North Korea’s proven history of cyberattacks, from the Sony Pictures intrusion in 2014 to the devastating WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017, underscores the global and indiscriminate threat posed by cyberwarfare activities.
Neuberger emphasized that North Korean cyber operations, including the hacking of cryptocurrencies around the world, serve as a significant source of revenue for the North Korean regime. The revenue is believed to support North Korea’s missile program, which has contributed to an increase in launches over the past few years.
However, according to Anne Neuberger, the USA is not passive. The Pentagon’s research arm, the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge, is a way to mobilize programmers in the United States. The structure is used to recruit and train cyber warriors, who develop methods and programs to protect against hacker attacks with the help of artificial intelligence. The strategic goal of the program is to ensure that artificial intelligence defense is one step ahead of attack applications developed using neural networks.
Previously Focus He reported that Russian hackers cooperated with Hamas terrorists to launch cyber attacks on Israel. The Killnet group announced that it would attack Israeli government websites. This was also stated by the Anonymous Sudan group, which is affiliated with the Russian Federation.
Source: Focus
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