Research firm Checkpoint has confirmed that OpenAI’s new AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is once again encountering problems. This time it’s about malware.
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Cyber criminals have now found a way to hack into the chatbot and overwhelm it with malware commands.
How do cyber criminals hack into ChatGPT?
Checkpoint’s research states that these cybercriminals have created their own bots that can infiltrate OpenAI’s GPT-3 API and modify its code.
Once the code is modified, the malware bot can generate malicious content such as: B. Text that can be used for phishing emails and malware scripts. The bots work through the messaging app Telegram, where they can set up an unrestricted, dark version of ChatGPT.
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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new AI chatbot, is having problems again. (Kurt Knutsson)
What is this malicious version doing?
ChatGPT usually has settings that allow it to refuse to reply to things like malicious codes or phishing emails. However, once this malware overrides ChatGPT’s regular encoding, hackers can impersonate another person or even a company and generate phishing emails.
Hackers only have to pay a cost of $6 per 100 queries and then have access to all kinds of bad content tips and examples to generate on ChatGPT.
How will this affect ChatGPT going forward?
It’s hard to say how much this will change ChatGPT as it’s still a relatively new product. This isn’t the first time the chatbot has been targeted by scammers.
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Thousands of people were tricked into paying for an iOS and Android app that replicates ChatGPT in January. ChatGPT is now completely free to use apart from the initial subscription fee for ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 per month.
How can you protect yourself from malware?
The best way to protect yourself from any kind of malware is to install antivirus software on your device.
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