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A new ChatGPT Zero Day attack is undetectable data-stealing malware

A few days ago, Europol warned that ChatGPT would help criminals improve how they target people online. Among the examples Europol offered was the creation of malware with the help of ChatGPT. The OpenAI generative AI tool has protections in place. They will prevent it from helping you create malicious code if you ask it bluntly.

But a security researcher bypassed those protections by doing what criminals would no doubt do. He used clear, simple prompts to ask ChatGPT to create the malware function by function. Then, he assembled the code snippets into a piece of data-stealing malware that can go undetected on PCs. The kind of 0-day attack that nation-states would use in highly sophisticated attacks. A piece of malware that would take a team of hackers several weeks to devise.

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By: Chris Smith
Title: A new ChatGPT Zero Day attack is undetectable data-stealing malware
Sourced From: bgr.com/tech/a-new-chatgpt-zero-day-attack-is-undetectable-data-stealing-malware/
Published Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:06:34 +0000