Europol warns of criminal use of ChatGPT.

Europol warns of cybercriminal organizations can take advantage of systems based on artificial intelligence like ChatGPT.

EU police body Europol warned about the potential abuse of systems based on artificial intelligence, such as the popular chatbot ChatGPT, for cybercriminal activities. Cybercriminal groups can use chatbot like ChatGPT in social engineering attacks, disinformation campaigns, and other cybercriminal activities, such as developing malicious code.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is becoming even more attractive for cybercriminal organization that are valuating how to use its enormous capabilities.

The following three crime areas are amongst the many areas of concern identified by Europol’s experts:

According to the Europol, technologies like ChatGPT can speed up each phase of an attack chain significantly.

The chatbot can be also abused by threat actors with little or no technical knowledge to carry out fraudulent activities, such as the development of malicious code.

The European police warns of expected improvements of capabilities of generative models such as ChatGPT. GPT-4, the latest release, has already made significant improvements over its previous versions, its capabilities can provide more effective assistance for cybercriminal activities.

“The newer model is better at understanding the context of the code, as well as at correcting error messages and fixing programming mistakes. For a potential criminal with little technical knowledge, this is an invaluable resource.” concludes the report. “At the same time, a more advanced user can exploit these improved capabilities to further refine or even automate sophisticated cybercriminal modi operandi.”

The report highlights the importance to prepare law enforcement community on both positive and negative AI-based applications that may affect their daily business. Read the full report at this link.

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