{"id":215048,"date":"2025-05-30T06:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/cybercriminals-exploit-ai-hype-to-spread-ransomware-malware"},"modified":"2025-05-30T06:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:07:30","slug":"cybercriminals-exploit-ai-hype-to-spread-ransomware-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/cybercriminals-exploit-ai-hype-to-spread-ransomware-malware","title":{"rendered":"Cybercriminals exploit AI hype to spread ransomware, malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cybercriminals-exploit-ai-hype-to-spread-ransomware-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threat actors linked to lesser-known ransomware and malware projects now use AI tools as lures to infect unsuspecting victims with malicious payloads.<\/p>\n<p>This development follows a trend that has been growing since last year, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fin7-hackers-launch-deepfake-nude-generator-sites-to-spread-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">advanced threat actors<\/a> using deepfake content generators to infect victims with malware.<\/p>\n<p>These lures have become <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/threat-intelligence\/cybercriminals-weaponize-fake-ai-websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">widely adopted<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fake-ai-video-generators-drop-new-noodlophile-infostealer-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">info-stealer malware<\/a> operators and ransomware operations attempting to breach corporate networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat actors linked to lesser-known ransomware and malware projects now use AI tools as lures to infect unsuspecting victims with malicious payloads. This development follows a trend that has been growing since last year, starting with advanced threat actors using deepfake content generators to infect victims with malware. These lures have become widely adopted by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}