Facebook parent company Meta warned that malicious groups – including Ducktail and NodeStealer – are now posing as ChatGPT and similar tools
"In one case, we've seen threat actors create malicious browser extensions available in official web stores that claim to offer ChatGPT-based tools," added Nguyen and Victory."They would then promote these malicious extensions on social media and through sponsored search results to trick people into downloading malware. In fact, some of these extensions did include working ChatGPT functionality alongside malware, likely to avoid suspicion from official web stores.
"We identified NodeStealer early – within two weeks of it being deployed – and took action to disrupt it and help people who may have been targeted to recover their accounts," Nguyen and Victory explained."As part of this effort, we submitted takedown requests to third-party registrars, hosting providers, and application services such as Namecheap, which were targeted by these threat actors to facilitate distribution and malicious operations.
"As BlackFog has demonstrated, ChatGPT and other generative AI tools can be used very effectively for data exfiltration, including writing the actual software to do this," explained Darren Williams, CEO and founder of BlackFog, via an email. He also warned that the threats from ChatGPT are likely to increase it, and therefore cybersecurity efforts will need to keep pace with this emerging technology.
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