Google warns of AI-powered malware targeting crypto users

Threat actors, including those with ties to North Korea, are using AI-enabled malware that rewrites itself in real time to target cryptocurrency users, according to a warning issued this week by Google. “Threat actors associated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) continue to misuse generative AI tools to support operations across the stages of the attack lifecycle, aligned with their efforts to target cryptocurrency and provide financial support to the regime,” Google Threat Intelligence Group wrote in a recent report . AI-powered malware poses new risks to crypto users Google has tracked at least five distinct malware families that can “dynamically generate malicious scripts, obfuscate their own code to evade detection,” using large language models such as Gemini and Qwen2.5-Coder during execution. AI-enabled malware is the new frontier in cyberattacks and presents a major escalation from previous approaches, where malicious functions were typically hardcoded directly into the malware...

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