{"id":236514,"date":"2026-05-05T02:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-fails-to-make-inroads-with-cybercriminals-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:39:28","slug":"ai-fails-to-make-inroads-with-cybercriminals-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-fails-to-make-inroads-with-cybercriminals-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"AI fails to make inroads with cybercriminals, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-fails-to-make-inroads-with-cybercriminals-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybercriminals have been struggling to adopt AI in their work, reports the first-of-its-kind study that analyzed a dataset of 100 million posts from underground cybercrime communities. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2603.29545\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, most cybercriminals\u2014often referred to as hackers\u2014lack the skills or resources to support real innovation within their criminal activities, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercriminals have been struggling to adopt AI in their work, reports the first-of-its-kind study that analyzed a dataset of 100 million posts from underground cybercrime communities. The study is published on the arXiv preprint server. In reality, most cybercriminals\u2014often referred to as hackers\u2014lack the skills or resources to support real innovation within their criminal activities, [\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-236514","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\/236514","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=236514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}