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The real customer: scaremongering security vendors

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/26/ai-for-evil-hacked-by-wormgpt/ - text

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Sources:

• Lifetime access to AI-for-evil WormGPT 4 costs just $220 https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/25/wormgpt_4_evil_ai_lifetime_cost_220_dollars/
• What Happened to WormGPT and What Are Cybercriminals Using Now? https://abnormal.ai/blog/what-happened-to-wormgpt-cybercriminal-tools
• Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service 'WormGPT' https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/08/meet-the-brains-behind-the-malware-friendly-ai-chat-service-wormgpt/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• You can't feed generative AI on 'bad' data then filter it for only 'good' data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/22/you-cant-feed-generative-ai-on-bad-data-then-filter-it-for-only-good-data/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnFozXDgrug&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/03/mit-releases-then-quietly-removes-nonsense-ai-cybersecurity-paper/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShXvaJ46hI0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• Anthropic: Chinese AI hackers are after you! Security researchers call BS https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/14/anthropic-chinese-ai-hackers-are-after-you-security-researchers-call-bs/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTbyGFW0new&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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