On Russian dating sites and in chat rooms, the activity of hostile Artificial Intelligence is noticed,
warns antivirus company PC Tools . Senior analyst for malicious software Sergey Shevchenko talks about a new dangerous chat bot called
CyberLover , which can keep correspondence with the interlocutor at a minimal level, and during flirting extract personal information from a person. Inexperienced in love affairs, teenagers easily tell the "cyber-blonde" their email address, phone number, name, and other private details, and also send a photo. Needless to say, this is more than enough for fraudsters to conduct ingenious scams that have become so popular in Russia lately.
This is really beautiful news. Judge for yourself, scientists around the world for decades looking for a way to pass the Turing test. And now Russian hackers needed to collect personal information from dating sites - and they immediately solved the problem.

CyberLover is currently running around on Russian-language websites. The final release will take place in February 2008, and later the English version should appear.
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It should be noted that the developers themselves are positioning their program, supposedly for dating. However, they do not hide at all that it can (and should) be used for the purposes of fraud. The first page of the site directly states:
“The possibilities of“ Cyberlover ”are not limited to dating only !!! It all depends on the scenario of the program you chose. You can force the program to invite girls into your ICQ, offering virtual sex in a very sophisticated way, you can set a female nickname and make a script so that the program divorced all Ineta men for money (for example, asked to send a code on the $ 5 MTS card to call by phone, under the pretext that ran out of money on the cell) or invite people to your site. Anything ... " .