Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns
Companies 'don't want their IP exposed, so they're willing to pay'
Data theft and extortion crews are stealing companies’ proprietary AI data and threatening to leak it if the victim organizations don’t pay a ransom, according to Google’s threat hunters.
In one case that Google’s Mandiant incident response team investigated, the crooks broke into a healthcare company and exfiltrated corporate data and drug research, including AI research and a proprietary AI model. The criminals then threatened to publish the data unless the company met their extortion demand.
In another breach at a company that specializes in AI media generation, attackers stole sensitive AI data including source code, prompts, skills, model scripts, and secrets before demanding a payment and threatening to dump the AI assets publicly if the ransom wasn’t paid.
Google detailed these two intrusions for the first time in its most recent AI Threat Tracker, published Tuesday and shared...
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