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Microsoft charges the group of developing a tool to abuse its AI service in the new lawsuit

According to the field complaint by the company in December in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The group of 10 unnamed defendants allegedly used the stolen customer’s credentials and the custom-designed software to break up the Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft fully managed the services which are powered by the Chat GPT maker Open AI technologies.

In the objection, Microsoft charges the defendants who are referring to as “Does,” a legal pseudonym. Through violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.  The federal racketeering law by illicitly accessing and utilizing Microsoft’s software and servers to “create offensive” and “harmful and illicit content.” 

Microsoft did not deliver specific details about the offensive content that was developed.

The company is pursuing the injunctive and “other equitable” relief and injuries.

According to the complaint, Microsoft said it was discovered in July 2024. The customers with the Azure OpenAI Service credentials. The unique strings of characters used to authenticate an application or user were being used to generate content that breaks the service’s acceptable use policy. Microsoft found that the API keys had been stolen from paying customers, according to the criticism.

“The precise manner in which Defendants obtained all of the API Keys used to carry out the misconduct described in this Complaint is unknown,” Microsoft’s complaint reads, “but it appears that Defendants have engaged in a pattern of systematic API Key theft that enabled them to steal Microsoft API Keys from multiple Microsoft customers.”

Microsoft alleges that the defendants employed stolen Azure OpenAI Service API keys belonging to U.S.-based customers to create a “hacking-as-a-service” scheme. 

According to the complaint. The defendants created a client-side tool called de3u. Software for processing routing communications from de3u Microsoft’s system. 

De3u allows the users to leverage and steal the API keys to generate images using DALL-E. One of the OPenAI models available to Azure OpenAI Service customers. Microsoft alleges that De3u also attempting to prevent the Azure OpenAI Service. When the text prompt contains words the triggers Microsoft’s range filtering.

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