The British cyber security company “Darktrace” warned last week that the artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT may increase the sophistication of “phishing” scams. Content creation bot ChatGPT, the latest Silicon Valley sensation, was launched by Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI in November.
“Darktrace does not believe that ChatGPT has already lowered defenses against threat actors significantly, but it may have helped increase the sophistication of phishing messages, allowing adversaries to create customized and ultimately more successful targeted attacks,” the company said in a results statement.
Phishing is an Internet fraud, during which there is an attempt to steal sensitive information by impersonating the Internet. The information that there is an attempt to “fish” may be, among other things, usernames and passwords or financial details. Phishing is carried out by pretending to be a legitimate party interested in receiving the information. Most often, the impersonator sends a message or e-mail in the name of a known website, in which the user is asked to click on a link. After clicking on the link, the user arrives at a fake website where he is asked to enter the details that the impostor wants to steal.
Generative AI, of which ChatGPT is an example, can, on demand, sift through reams of data to conjure up original content—a picture, a poem, a thousand-word essay—in seconds. “ChatGPT ignited a conversation about the implications of creative artificial intelligence for cybersecurity,” Darktrace noted on Wednesday.
The company emphasized that the number of email attacks on its customers did not increase despite the release of ChatGPT. However, she warned that the “linguistic complexity” of these emails – including punctuation, sentence length and text volume – has increased. “This suggests that cybercriminals may be turning their focus to creating more sophisticated social engineering scams that exploit user trust.”
The company, which uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to combat cyber-attacks, is listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2021.
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