Microsoft Cracks Down on Malicious Copilot AI Use

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit filed legal action after discovering a foreign-based group developed sophisticated software that exploited exposed customer credentials scraped from public websites to access and alter generative AI services; the group then resold that access and provided instructions for producing harmful AI-generated content. Microsoft has revoked the access, bolstered safeguards, and cited guidance for protecting the public from abusive AI outputs.