Companies dont want their IP exposed, so theyre willing to pay Data theft and extortion crews are stealing companies proprietary AI data and threatening to leak it if the victimorganizations dont pay a ransom, according to Googles threat hunters. In one case that Googles Mandiant incident response team investigated, the crooks broke into a healthcare company and exfiltrated corporate data and drug research, including AI research and a proprietary AI model. The criminals then threatened to...