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The Rise of AI Abuse:
A story of Criminal GPTs, DeepFakes, Data Breaches, AI Malware, and Agentic Sleeper Agents

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Early AI Abuse
  • The Rise of "Dark AI"
  • Underground Evolution
  • Deepfakes and Social Engineering
  • AI-Powered Malware
  • Targeting the AI Ecosystem
  • Computer Using Agents
  • AI Sleeper Agents
  • Conclusion
AI Risk
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Oliver Simonnet

Lead Security Researcher

20 October 202510 min read
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