Security News > 2025 > January > Microsoft Sues Hacking Group Exploiting Azure AI for Harmful Content Creation

2025-01-11 07:54
Microsoft has revealed that it's pursuing legal action against a "foreign-based threat–actor group" for operating a hacking-as-a-service infrastructure to intentionally get around the safety controls of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) services and produce offensive and harmful content. The tech giant's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) said it has observed the threat actors "develop
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