With the rise and influence of artificial intelligence programs, it was only natural and a matter of time that more and more people would use it for malicious and nefarious ideas in mind. If you thought ChatGPT and others like it were bad enough, then meet it’s overtly evil cousin: “WormGPT.”
Last week tech outlet Slash Next helped to bring this destructive hacking tool into the limelight. The team at Slash Next searched forums and sites on the dark web, where they found users looking to use Chat-GPT and AI for illegal acts, such as launching sophisticated phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.
The publication provided screenshots of these individuals in these forums discussing how to conduct cybercrimes and using AI to do it. These same scheming peoples have now created new modules designed to better carry out their malicious acts, and advertising it to would-be criminals…
