{"id":197538,"date":"2024-10-12T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T22:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/openai-confirms-threat-actors-use-chatgpt-to-write-malware"},"modified":"2024-10-12T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T22:26:51","slug":"openai-confirms-threat-actors-use-chatgpt-to-write-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/openai-confirms-threat-actors-use-chatgpt-to-write-malware","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI confirms threat actors use ChatGPT to write malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openai-confirms-threat-actors-use-chatgpt-to-write-malware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o!!!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>OpenAI has disrupted over 20 malicious cyber operations abusing its AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for debugging and developing malware, spreading misinformation, evading detection, and conducting spear-phishing attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which focuses on operations since the beginning of the year, constitutes the first official confirmation that generative mainstream AI tools are used to enhance offensive cyber operations.<\/p>\n<p>The first signs of such activity were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/malicious-powershell-script-pushing-malware-looks-ai-written\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported by Proofpoint in April<\/a>, who suspected TA547 (aka \u201cScully Spider\u201d) of deploying an AI-written PowerShell loader for their final payload, Rhadamanthys info-stealer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o!!!! OpenAI has disrupted over 20 malicious cyber operations abusing its AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for debugging and developing malware, spreading misinformation, evading detection, and conducting spear-phishing attacks. The report, which focuses on operations since the beginning of the year, constitutes the first official confirmation that generative mainstream AI tools are used to enhance offensive cyber [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197538","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\/197538","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}