This month's issue of the MIT Technology Review is focusing on how bad actors misuse technology to commit crime, with articles on AI and Bitcoin etc
But the title on the photo is actually misleading, the article is about THORchain, a shitcoin I had never heard of, and its involvement in the recent ByBit hack. Bitcoin is only mentioned en passant, as an off ramp for the hackers, but noone would have read this hit piece if they had been honest and instead used THORchain in the title...
The AI article has a story I find difficult to believe: in January 2024, a senior employee of a multinational company allegedly transferred 25 M$ to hackers after being tricked by deep fakes in a Teams meeting. I could be wrong but I just find it hard to believe that real-time interactive AI video generation was already that mature in Jan 2024 for this kind of use cases...
