# OpenAI — Cyber threat actors: AI-assisted intrusion research

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-02-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-cyber-threat-actors
- Record: https://forck.live/items/639-cyber-threat-actors-ai-assisted-intrusion-research

OpenAI banned accounts potentially associated with DPRK-affiliated threat actors that used AI to research intrusion tooling, phishing, malware, and cryptocurrency targeting.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-cyber-threat-actors:

> OpenAI banned accounts potentially associated with publicly reported DPRK-affiliated threat actors using AI to research intrusion tooling, phishing, malware, and cryptocurrency targeting.

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