AI Used For Extortion & Sexual Abuse

Uploaded on 2024-12-02 in TECHNOLOGY-Key Areas-Artificial Intelligence, NEWS-Cybersecurity News, FREE TO VIEW

Paedophiles, scammers, and criminal hackers are increasingly using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to hit victims in harmful ways, a senior police chief has warned.

Alex Murray, the UK national police lead for AI, has said that the use of the technology was growing rapidly because of its growing access and that police had to “move fast” to monitor and reduce the threat.

“We know through the history of policing that criminals are inventive and will use anything they can to commit crime. They’re certainly using AI to commit crime now,” Murray said.

Speaking at the recent National Police Chiefs’ Council Murray raised concerns over emerging AI “heists” in which fraudsters use deepfake technology to impersonate company executives and trick their colleagues into transferring large sums of money. “It can happen on an international and serious organised crime scale, and it can happen in someone’s bedroom … You can think of any crime type and put it through an AI lens and say: ‘What is the opportunity here?’”

This year, a finance worker at a multinational firm was duped into paying HK$200m (£20.5m) to criminals after a video conference call in which the scammers were able to convincingly pose as the company’s chief financial officer. Similar crimes have happened in several other countries,

Murray, who is also Director of Threat Leadership at the National Crime Agency, described these events as “high cost, low prevalence crime” and that he was personally aware of dozens of cases in the UK. He said also that the greatest volume of criminal AI use was by paedophiles, who have been using AI to create images and videos depicting child sexual abuse.

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