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A threat actor is using legit-looking AI tools and software to sneak malware for future attacks on organizations worldwide. The campaign, which Trend Micro researchers are tracking as "EvilAI," has already racked up hundreds of victims across manufacturing, government, healthcare, and other sectors, and has infected organizations in the US, India, the UK, Germany, France, Brazil, and beyond.

Africa's cybercriminals, like the continent overall, are quickly gaining maturity, says Joshua Paul Ignacio, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, which also aided Interpol in the latest operation.

"We're talking artificial intelligence, but chatbots are really stupid," says David Sancho, Senior Threat Researcher at Trend Micro. "They process all text as if they had new information, and if that information is a command, they process the information as a command."

On the latest episode of the TechSpective Podcast, Tony Bradley spoke with Kevin Simzer, COO of Trend Micro, about how generative and agentic AI are reshaping development and defense strategies.

"A leak happened here somewhere," Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), told The Register in July. "And now you've got a zero-day exploit in the wild, and worse than that, you've got a zero-day exploit in the wild that bypasses the patch, which came out the next day."

Dark Reading's Becky Bracken meets with Dustin Childs of Trend ZDI at Black Hat 2025.

While the cybercrime underground has professionalized and become more organized in recent years, threat actors are, to a great extent, still using the same attack methods today as they were in 2020.

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