Reports of a sophisticated new artificial intelligence platform started surfacing on cybersecurity blogs in April, describing a bespoke system whispered about on dark web hacker forums and created for the sole purpose of crime. But despite its shadowy provenance and evil-sounding name, Xanthorox isn’t so mysterious. The developer of the AI has a GitHub page, as well as a public YouTube channel with screen recordings of its interface and the description “This Channel Is Created Just for Fun Content Ntg else.” There’s also a Gmail address for Xanthorox, a Telegram channel that chronicles the platform’s development and a Discord server where people can pay to access it with cryptocurrencies. No shady initiations into dark web criminal forums required—just a message to a lone entrepreneur serving potential criminals with more transparency than many online shops hawking antiaging creams on Instagram.
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