On Friday, a report from Israeli security company Check Point warned companies against the threat actors who have started using OpenAI’s artificially intelligent chatbot ChatGPT to quickly build hacking tools.
Hackers are also working to build other chatbots which will impersonate young females to trap users, one expert monitoring criminal forums reported.
Hundreds of users had already registered complaints against ChatGPT that the app is spying on users’ keyboard strokes or creating ransomware. The app was launched in December.
The agency reported that the hacker who previously shared Android malware showcased code written by ChatGPT that stole files of interest compressed them, and sent them across the web. Additionally, another tool that was installed as a backdoor in a computer, could upload further malware to an infected system.
Alex Holden, the founder of cyber intelligence company Hold Security, said that the dating scammers start using ChatGPT too, as they try to convince users with personas.
“They are planning to create chatbots to impersonate mostly girls to go further in chats with their marks. They’re trying to automate idle chatter, ” he told.
Rik Ferguson, vice president of security intelligence at American cybersecurity company Forescout, said that as of now we did not find any advanced tools in ChatGPT that are capable of coding something as complex as the major ransomware strains that have been witnessed in significant hacking incidents in recent years.
However, OpenAI’s tool will make things easier for novices to enter into illicit markets by building more basic, but similarly effective malware, Ferguson further added.
He also said that building code that steals victims’ data is not the only concern but ChatGPT could also be used to help build websites and bots that will trap users into sharing their important credentials. “It could industrialize the creation and personalization of malicious web pages, highly-targeted phishing campaigns, and social engineering-reliant scams,”
ChatGPT is a language model chatbot that was developed by OpenAI based on GPT-3.5. It has remarkable functions that allow it to interact in conversational dialogue form and provide responses to users' questions.
