{"id":264113,"date":"2026-06-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/ai-adoption-creates-new-opportunities-for-attackers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:35:11","slug":"ai-adoption-creates-new-opportunities-for-attackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/ai-adoption-creates-new-opportunities-for-attackers\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Adoption Creates New Opportunities for Attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/attackers-ai-adoption-malware\/\">AI Adoption Creates New Opportunities for Attackers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/attackers-ai-adoption-malware\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/attackers-ai-adoption-malware\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) has issued advice on how organizations and their security teams should respond to the rising issue of AI-powered cyber threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI is amazing, it makes our job easier. \u201cBut the same AI that\u2019s useful can be easily manipulated by threat actors, we\u2019ve seen it in social engineering and in our day-do-day investigations,&#8221;\u00a0said Mary Asaolu, senior security researcher at Microsoft, during Infosecurity Europe on June 3.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, while AI is being deployed within the enterprise to provide benefits to organizations and employees, if not managed correctly, AI code can\u00a0introduce cybersecurity risks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI really is the emergent angle,\u201d said Meaghan Bradshaw, principal security researcher at Microsoft. \u201cBut AI code introduces another layer of risk. Nearly half of AI code contains flaws. Attackers can exploit it to compromise applications or data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not a theoretical concept: cyber criminals have already exploited AI tools as part of the attack chain, as demonstrated during Microsoft&#8217;s Infosecurity Europe talk titled \u2018Securing AI in the Age of Intelligent Threats\u2019, which detailed a campaign dubbed \u2018JustAskJacky\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The JustAskJacky attack tricks users into downloading what looks like a legitimate AI assistant, but is in fact a backdoor which cybercriminals use to deliver malware.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign\u00a0combines this with professional-looking interfaces and valid digital signatures which make it harder for both users and security tools to distinguish it from legitimate software, thus allowing it to stay under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the malicious AI assistant was so good at avoiding detection that it was only discovered when Microsoft DART was brought into an organization to investigate a separate issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey found this application was masquerading as an AI assistant to help day-to-day workflows,\u201d Bradshaw added<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, it appears to function normally; however, during installation, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/attackers-ai-adoption-malware\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Adoption Creates New Opportunities for Attackers https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/attackers-ai-adoption-malware\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-04 10:00:00 Source Domain: www.infosecurity-magazine.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/8bcb0b76-2a88-465a-8bc8-ec38e7a2974e.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24,31,32],"class_list":["post-264113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity","tag-exploit","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264117,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264113\/revisions\/264117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}