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Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee

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Ryan Mitchell Kramer , 25 , pleaded guilty to hacking an employee of The Walt Disney Company by tricking the person into running a malicious version of a widely used open source AI image generation tool.

The program contained malicious code that gave access to computers that installed it.

Kramer operated using the moniker NullBulge .

The FBI is investigating.

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