# OpenAI — Vixen and Keyhole Panda: China-linked cyber operations

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-vixen-keyhole-panda
- Record: https://forck.live/items/552-vixen-and-keyhole-panda-china-linked-cyber-operations

OpenAI banned accounts linked to PRC-attributed threat actors who used AI for vulnerability research, scripting, translation, and operational troubleshooting.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-vixen-keyhole-panda:

> OpenAI banned accounts associated with threat actors publicly attributed to the PRC, using AI to support vulnerability research, scripting, translation, and operational troubleshooting.

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