ChatGPT: AI-designed malicious emails and code
Check Point's security research department warns of hackers who could use OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex to launch targeted and efficient cyberattacks. The intelligence can create phishing emails and generates dangerous VBA code for Excel files. In experimental correspondence, Check Point Research (CPR) tested whether the ChatBot could be used to create malicious code to initiate cyber attacks. ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a free-to-use AI chatbot that can provide its users with contextual answers based on data found on the internet. Codex, on the other hand, is an OpenAI…