2023-05-03 18:00:07
Increasingly cybercriminals are exploiting the growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) to try to deceive Internet users. Meta, owner of Facebookhas warned this Wednesday of an increase in computer viruses camouflaged in tools such as the popular ChatGPT.
In its latest security report, the social networking giant explains that it has detected about ten types of ‘malware‘ and more than 1,000 malicious links. These programs were promoted as tools for IA with the aim of luring users into downloading them on their devices, which would open the door to an infection of their systems.
“From the criminal’s point of view, ChatGPT is the new cryptocurrency,” he explained. Guy RosenDirector of Information Security of Meta, drawing a parallel between this new problem and the phenomenon of scams with digital currencies. Cybercriminals were quick to exploit interest in the technology to try to optimize their attacks. Now they are repeating that strategy.
Meta has explained that it is preparing its defense systems to stop possible abuses of “malware strains” that take advantage of people’s interest in ChatGPT from OpenAI to trick them into installing malware that pretends to offer AI functionality.” Since March alone, the company claims to have blocked more than 1,000 malicious web addresses.
Added to this problem are the warnings from experts that tools such as ChatGPT can be used to speed up the production of disinformation on a large scale.
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