Three activity clusters were terminated by OpenAI on Tuesday for abusing its ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) tool to aid in the creation of malware.
Among them is a Russian-speaking threat actor who allegedly utilized the chatbot to assist in the creation and improvement of a remote access trojan (RAT), a credential stealer designed to avoid detection. Additionally, the operator prototyped and debugged technical elements that facilitate credential theft and post-exploitation using multiple ChatGPT accounts.
We saw that these accounts posted proof of their activity in a Telegram channel devoted to Russian-speaking criminal gangs, suggesting that these accounts are associated with those actors, according to OpenAI.
Although the threat actor’s direct requests for malicious content were denied by the AI company’s large language models (LLMs), they circumvented the restriction by developing building-block code read more about OpenAI Disrupts Russian North Korean and Chinese Hackers Misusing ChatGPT for Cyberattacks.
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