Friday, May 09, 2025

Xanthorox AI Lets Anyone Become a Cybercriminal

Deni Ellis Béchard

Wed, May 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM PDT

12 min read

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 anti=aging creams on Instagram.

This isn’t to say that the platform isn’t nefarious. Xanthorox generates deepfake videos or audios to defraud you by impersonating someone you know, phishing e-mails to steal your login credentials, malware code to break into your computer and ransomware to lock you out of it until you pay—common tools in a multibillion-dollar scam industry