# OpenAI — CyberAv3ngers: Iran-linked cyber research activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-cyberav3ngers
- Record: https://forck.live/items/699-cyberav3ngers-iran-linked-cyber-research-activity

OpenAI banned accounts linked to CyberAv3ngers that were using AI to research industrial control systems, default credentials, and targets.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-cyberav3ngers:

> OpenAI banned accounts that appeared to belong to CyberAv3ngers using AI to research industrial control systems, default credentials, and targets.

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