Researchers discovered that cybercriminals began using the ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool, developed by OpenAI, to recreate malware strains and execute malicious software attacks.

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chat developed by OpenAI, trained to hold a text conversation. It is a chat that is based on the GPT 3.5 language model, and in recent days it has surprised people with the naturalness of its responses and its ability to generate and link ideas and remember previous conversations.

To be able to use this chatbot, it is only necessary to have an OpenAI account, where it can be downloaded for free. The accessibility to this tool is what put cybersecurity companies, such as Check Point, on alert.

At the end of last December and given the growing interest in ChatGPT, the technical director of Check Point software, Eusebio Nieva, warned that “anyone with minimal resources and zero knowledge of code can easily exploit it”.

Now, a group of researchers from this cybersecurity company found indications that malicious actors are using ChatGPT to execute malware campaigns following methods commonly used in this type of action, which he collects in a post on his official blog.

Check Point found further evidence of ChatGPT misuse by this threat actor in the creation of a Java snippet. It downloads a common SSH client, putty, and runs it covertly, using Powershell.

The cybersecurity company has commented that earlier this year several threat actors mentioned bad practices with ChatGPT in this type of forum. Then, cybercriminals became more interested in generating counterfeit art with DALL-E 3 and selling it through legitimate platforms such as Etsy.

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A file with nearly 500 million phone numbers of WhatsApp users around the world appeared for sale a few days ago on a darknet forum, although analysis by the cybersecurity company Check Point has reduced the number to 360 million. .

The company analyzed files related to WhatsApp user data that appeared on the hacking community forum BreachForums on November 16. Whoever published it claimed that it contained 487 million mobile phone numbers of users of this Meta service.

Now Check Point confirmed that these are “active telephone numbers”, whose figure drops to 360 million, of users from 108 countries, as indicated in a press release.

Despite not containing information about the content of the messages exchanged by users, the technical director of Check Point Software for Spain and Portugal, EusebioNieva, indicated that it is “a large-scale violation of a popular mobile application used by millions of people all over the world.”

The company notes that the files, which include international dialing codes, were first made available for sale in the last four days, and are being freely distributed among cybercriminals.

The company urges WhatsApp users to be “very attentive to the messages they receive and to exercise extreme caution when clicking on any link and message shared in the app,” warns Nieva.

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LinkedIn is listed as the company that has received the highest number of phishing attacks during the first quarter of the year, being the target of 52% of these campaigns.

Social networks have become the main target of this type of scam, whose objective is to obtain information from users to access their personal accounts, as well as bank details.

These platforms are followed in a number of attacks by other sectors of the industry, such as retail, technology and freight transport.

This is one of the main conclusions reached by CheckPoint in its recent Brand Phishing Report, which analyzed the record of this type of attack carried out during the first quarter of this year.

In its report, CheckPoint analyzed phishing attacks targeting large companies and organizations such as LinkedIn, DHL, Google, Microsoft, Apple or WhatsApp.

During the first quarter of 2022, the professional social network completed 52 % of all registered attacks globally.

This figure is 44 % higher than the figure registered in the previous quarter, of 8 %. In addition, it is the first time that the platform has led the ranking of the most attacked websites.

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