{"id":164158,"date":"2023-05-19T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/searching-for-ai-tools-watch-out-for-rogue-sites-distributing-redline-malware"},"modified":"2023-05-19T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:22:19","slug":"searching-for-ai-tools-watch-out-for-rogue-sites-distributing-redline-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/searching-for-ai-tools-watch-out-for-rogue-sites-distributing-redline-malware","title":{"rendered":"Searching for AI Tools? Watch Out for Rogue Sites Distributing RedLine Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/searching-for-ai-tools-watch-out-for-rogue-sites-distributing-redline-malware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malicious Google Search ads for generative AI services like OpenAI ChatGPT and Midjourney are being used to direct users to sketchy websites as part of a BATLOADER campaign designed to deliver RedLine Stealer malware.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth AI services are extremely popular but lack first-party standalone apps (i.e., users interface with ChatGPT via their web interface while Midjourney uses Discord),\u201d eSentire said in an analysis.<\/p>\n<p>This vacuum has been exploited by threat actors looking to drive AI app-seekers to imposter web pages promoting fake apps.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hackers are using Google Search ads to trick AI tool seekers into downloading malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious Google Search ads for generative AI services like OpenAI ChatGPT and Midjourney are being used to direct users to sketchy websites as part of a BATLOADER campaign designed to deliver RedLine Stealer malware. \u201cBoth AI services are extremely popular but lack first-party standalone apps (i.e., users interface with ChatGPT via their web interface while [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}