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Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns
Data theft and extortion crews are stealing companies’ proprietary AI data and threatening to leak it if the victim organizations don’t pay a ransom, according to Google’s threat hunters.
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Google’s threat‑hunting team reports that extortion groups are targeting companies’ proprietary AI data, threatening to publish it unless a ransom is paid. In a documented case, the attackers breached a healthcare firm, stealing corporate information, drug‑research data and a proprietary AI model. The incident was investigated by Google’s Mandiant incident‑response team.
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