2024-02-16

In China, hacker groups are operating that launch cyberattacks to steal information from Japanese government agencies.
February 16, 2024
This article ranked first in “Yesterday’s Popular Pages, February 15, 2018,” but had been subjected to search obstruction by the criminal whom readers know well.
I am reposting it.
This article’s rating as an English-language text is on a par with that of The New York Times.
The following is from page 2 of today’s Sankei Shimbun.
This article, too, should make people throughout the world recognize that one-party Communist Party dictatorship is synonymous with evil.
Emphasis within the text, apart from the headlines, is mine.
China and Russia Use AI for Cyberattacks
North Korea May Also Have Acquired the Technology
It was learned on the 13th that China and Russia had acquired technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to launch cyberattacks automatically.
In addition to increasing hacking efficiency by reducing the labor required, AI can reportedly learn attack methods on its own, improve its capabilities in a short period, and make it easier to launch large-scale attacks.
There are concerns that North Korea may also have acquired similar technology, and the threat of attacks exploiting AI appears likely to spread worldwide.
Scott Jarkoff, former head of cybersecurity at U.S. Forces Japan headquarters, disclosed this in an interview with the Sankei Shimbun.
Jarkoff said that he shares information with the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and other organizations, and that he obtained information last year about China’s and Russia’s acquisition of AI technology.
According to Jarkoff, the AI technology acquired by China and Russia has the capability to send viruses automatically to vast numbers of personal computers and smartphones.
It simultaneously sends emails around the world that infect devices with viruses when their attachments are opened, making it “possible to carry out attacks that steal information or destroy systems without a hacker’s involvement.”
Jarkoff pointed out that they “have also acquired AT technology to investigate flaws in the systems of targeted organizations and to find targets from which money can be stolen.”
Regarding North Korea, he analyzed the country’s cybercrimes that have come to light in recent years and concluded that “it may have acquired AI technology.”
He also stated that, through “deep learning,” in which AI learns on its own from large amounts of data, “attack capabilities and techniques improve automatically, and skilled hackers emerge without having to be trained.”
While human hackers were easier to identify by their methods and the times at which they launched attacks, he also said that “investigations are difficult with AI, and attackers can more easily evade tracking.”
In China, there are hacker groups that launch cyberattacks to steal information from Japanese government agencies.
In Russia, too, groups that attacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the U.S. presidential election have been identified.
Jarkoff emphasized that “even more serious damage will occur when Chinese and Russian hacker groups use AI.”
He also referred to the Ministry of Defense’s policy of introducing AI into systems that protect its networks and predicted that “future cyberwarfare will be a battle between AIs.”