In Finland, a graduate found a way to use AI to cheat on exams
In Finland, Faru Yusupov, a graduate of Otaniemi Upper Secondary School in Espoo, discovered a way to use artificial intelligence to obtain answers during matriculation examinations. As YLE News reports, he tested a program he created in a test network for matriculation examinations at his school and, with the help of a teacher, reported the finding to Finland’s Matriculation Examination Board.
A program using the clipboard
According to the outlet, Yusupov’s program monitored the clipboard and responded to questions formatted in a particular way. It sent the query to an artificial intelligence model, to which upper secondary school study materials could be added, among other things.
The program then returned a ready-made answer to the clipboard, from where it could be inserted into the examination paper. The discovered method is linked to the use of the clipboard and copy-and-paste functions in the Abitti examination software.
Yusupov, who has been interested in programming since primary school, said he does not plan to use his discovery to take exams dishonestly. According to him, he was interested in how the new version of the examination application works and what vulnerabilities it might have.
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Rewards for reports
Finland’s Matriculation Examination Board welcomes reports of vulnerabilities in the examination environment. Two years ago, three young people discovered a serious security problem that could be fixed after they reported it.
Usually, the board received several vulnerability reports a year. After the Hackabi rewards program was launched in spring, their number exceeded 50. A program participant can receive a small monetary reward for a discovered vulnerability.
At the same time, merely discovering a vulnerability or a way to cheat is not enough to receive a reward if the technical monitoring system can still detect the violation. Details of how the monitoring system works are not disclosed. The autumn session of Finland’s 2026 matriculation examinations is set to begin on September 14 with a native language and literature reading literacy test.
