How Can ChatGPT be Used Maliciously?
Recently, researchers from Check Point Software discovered that ChatGPT could be utilized to create phishing emails. When combined with Codex, a natural language-to-code system by OpenAI, ChatGPT can develop and disseminate malicious code.
According to Sergey Shykevich, threat intelligence group manager at Check Point Software, “Our researchers built a full malware infection chain starting from a phishing email to an Excel document that has malicious VBA [Visual Basic for Application] code. We can compile the whole malware to an executable file and run it in a machine.”
He adds that ChatGPT primarily produces “much better and more convincing phishing and impersonation emails than real phishing emails we see in the wild now.”
In regards to the same, Lorrie Faith Cranor, director and Bosch Distinguished Professor of the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute and FORE Systems Professor of computer science and of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University says, “I haven’t tried using ChatGPT to generate code, but I’ve seen some examples from others who have. It g
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