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ChatGPT and the violated data protection
July 1, 2023
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Generative AI systems like ChatGPT receive a lot of attention and are fed with data by thousands of users every day in disregard for data protection. More and more companies are using the technologies and using them for a wide variety of projects and processes. The tools are primarily used for gathering information, writing texts and translating. Unfortunately, many users are not very considerate with sensitive company data and let the AI ​​work for them. This procedure can cause serious consequential damage, since this data can be accessed without the control of any other user who only asks the right questions...

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ChatGPT Experiment: Who Spots Phishing Better?
June 9, 2023
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ChatGPT Experiment: Who Spots Phishing Better?

Are the jobs of security experts safe for now or are AIs such as ChatGPT replacing the experts? Kaspersky did an experiment and used ChatGPT to detect phishing links. The result: more than sobering. Fortunately, experts and their expertise will remain in cybersecurity for a long time to come. Just because a forester knows everything about trees and wood. he is far from being a good carpenter. That's how it is with the AI ​​ChatGPT. Although she knows almost everything about phishing, she cannot really process the individual pieces of information. In…

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ChatGPT Fake Apps: Expensive subscriptions for zero features
24 May 2023
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A Sophos report uncovers the rip-off through expensive ChatGPT imitations: The fraud apps continue to thrive due to gaps in the app store guidelines from the current interest in the latest version of the AI-supported language model and benefit with sometimes horrendous subscriptions. Fees . Sophos X-Ops has uncovered various apps on the official Apple and Google stores posing as legitimate ChatGPT-based chatbots, scamming users with obfuscated, often extortionate, fees, and raking in thousands of dollars a month for scammers. Fleeceware: Expensive apps with tons of advertising The report “FleeceGPT Mobile Apps Target…

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The Swiss army knife for cybercriminals
14 May 2023
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Security researchers report that cybercriminals are selling tools that allow other hackers to bypass ChatGPT's security restrictions. As early as March 2023, new malware families were discovered using ChatGPT's name to trick users. The scams are often mobile applications or browser extensions that imitate ChatGPT tools. In some cases, the fake tools even offer some ChatGPT features. However, their ultimate goal is to steal the user's credentials. AI-generated malware It is no longer a secret that cybercriminals use ChatGPT to generate malware.

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Welcome Distrust: Cybersecurity and ChatGPT
14 May 2023
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Welcome Distrust: Cybersecurity and ChatGPT

So far, organizations have had their biggest weakness in the fight against cybercrime well under control: employees have been successfully trained and sensitized. But with AI-generated social engineering scams comes a new wave. Until the technology is mature, humans have to play the watchdog, says Chester Wisniewski, Field CTO Applied Research at Sophos and makes three predictions for the future. Organizations have grappled with one of their most critical cybersecurity components: their people. They counter the "human weakness" with continuous training and now often trust that users, for example, avoid potential phishing attacks due to linguistic irregularities...

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Phishing Trap: Fake ChatGPT websites
10 May 2023
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Cyber ​​criminals and phishing attackers are discovering the ChatGPT platform. A significant increase in fake websites claiming to be affiliated with or related to ChatGPT have been found on the web. This is how phishing attempts and malware attacks are made. Some scammers even directly impersonate ChatGPT's website to trick users into downloading deceptive files or revealing sensitive information. The frequency of these attack attempts has steadily increased in recent months. At the same time, Check Point registers tens of thousands of attempts to access these malicious ChatGPT websites. From the beginning of 2023 to the end of April, from…

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Dark Web: Hackers are looking for ways to manipulate ChatGPT
7 May 2023
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The scramble to use ChatGPT for cybercrime has seen a seven-fold increase in dark web forums where hackers discuss how to manipulate the chatbot. That’s according to a new study by cybersecurity company NordVPN. According to the research, the number of new posts on dark web forums about the AI ​​tool rose from 120 in January to 870 in February — a 625 percent increase. The number of forum posts related to ChatGPT increased by 145% from 37 to 91 in one month as discussions surrounding the abuse…

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Successful phishing thanks to AI
1 May 2023
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A study shows how successful AI-generated cyber attacks already are. The greatest danger lies in the easy scalability of spear phishing attacks - both in terms of quantity and quality. In addition to a lot of encouragement for the current developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), some critical voices have also been raised in recent weeks. Cybersecurity experts, including those at SoSafe, Europe's leading provider of security awareness and training, have long warned of the possibility that generative AI could write better phishing emails than humans can. Initial studies* by SoSafe now show that…

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Creative scams using chatbots
30 April 2023
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The dark side of ChatGPT's popularity is that it also draws the attention of scammers who try to profit from using phrases and domain names that appear related to the site. Between November 2022 and early April 2023, Unit 42 saw a 910% increase in monthly registrations for ChatGPT-related domains. Unit 42 also observed a 17.818 percent growth in related squatting domains from DNS security logs during this period. Unit 42 also recorded up to 118 detections per day of malicious URLs related to ChatGPT, which…

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ChatGPT 4: The lawyer who knows how to lie perfectly
30 April 2023
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ChatGPT 4: The lawyer who knows how to lie perfectly

The update for ChatGPT to version 4 was eagerly awaited and, according to the manufacturer Open AI, is said to represent the “most advanced” AI technology and even passed a bar exam with top marks in a test. However, the only thing that ChatGPT can recreate are lies that are hardly recognizable in the factual texts, according to Sophos security expert Chester Wisniewski in an interview. How does a representative of the IT security industry see the rapid development in chat AI and how does he classify the resulting opportunities and possible disadvantages? Chester Wisniewski, Principal Researcher at Sophos, has...

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