North Korea's top hacking units have operationalized AI, Microsoft says

Microsoft Threat Intelligence said in a report published Thursday that it ranked eight of North Korea’s most active hacking groups on a four-step AI-adoption scale, with Jade Sleet, Coral Sleet and Jasper Sleet at the top operationalized level, meaning AI is part of their whole operation. Microsoft rated North Korea’s overall use of AI in hacking as high and placed Diamond, Onyx, Pearl and Sapphire Sleet at accelerating, while Emerald Sleet was at expanding. The report was released as North Korea was blamed for the Oct. 29 Binance theft, in which about $6.36 billion was moved from wallets; the report did not link that hack to AI. Binance has frozen about $3 billion.