ChatGPT used to Develop Malicious Tools

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As per a recent Checkpoint report, the AI lab’s latest creation is designed to respond to natural language dialogue and provide answers to complex queries. ChatGPT is capable of understanding and responding to natural language queries in a variety of ways. The tool is built on the massive GPT-3 engine and can write code, solve problems and provide customer support.

Language interfaces are going to be a big deal. Talk to the computer (voice or text) and get what you want, for increasingly complex definitions of “want” ChatGPT is helping hackers write malware codes.

Soon you will be able to have helpful assistants that talk to you, answer questions, and give advice. Later you can have something that goes off and does tasks for you. Eventually you can have something that goes off and discovers new knowledge for you.

Hacking forums are full of tools built by criminals using OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. A report says, cybercriminals are using ChatGPT to develop malicious tools. In underground hacking forums, threat actors are creating infostealers, encryption tools and facilitating fraud activity. Check Point Research warns of the fast-growing interest in ChatGPT by cybercriminals and shares three recent cases, with screenshots, of the development and sharing of malicious tools using ChatGPT.

On December 29, 2022, a thread named “ChatGPT - Benefits of Malware” appeared on a popular underground hacking forum. The publisher of the thread disclosed that he was experimenting with ChatGPT to recreate malware strains and techniques described in research publications and write-ups about common malware.

Secondly, on December 21, 2022, a threat actor dubbed USDoD posted a Python script, which he emphasized was the ‘first script he ever created’. When another cybercriminal commented that the style of the code resembles openAI code, USDoD confirmed that OpenAI gave him a “nice helping hand to finish the script with a nice scope.”

Cybercriminals are finding ChatGPT attractive. In recent weeks, we are seeing hackers starting to use it to write malicious code. ChatGPT has the potential to speed up the process for hackers by giving them a good starting point. Just as ChatGPT can be used for good to assist developers in writing code, it can also be used for malicious purposes.