Recorded Future: ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory based in the US, which uses the GPT-3 family of autoregressive (AR) language models. ChatGPT launched on November 30, 2022, and has been subject to widespread attention. Among the potential advantages of ChatGPT, we have also identified several potential use cases ripe for abuse. While ChatGPT has the potential to be abused by nation-state actors to enable cyberespionage, information operations (IOs), and disruptive cyberattacks (“cyberwarfare”), we believe these use cases are not as immediate threats as those posed by cybercriminals. Short term, we believe that non-state actors with limited technical knowledge and resources pose a more serious threat via the malicious use of ChatGPT. The types of threat actors that we believe currently pose the most threat can be classified as script kiddies, hacktivists, scammers and spammers, payment card fraudsters, and threat actors engaging in other lowly and disreputable forms of cybercrime. Within days of the ChatGPT launch, we identified many threat actors on dark web and special-access forums sharing buggy but functional malware, social engineering tutorials, money-making schemes, and more — all enabled by the use of ChatGPT. While none of these activities have risen to the seriousness of ransomware, data extortion, denial of service, cyberterrorism, and so on, these attack vectors remain possibilities.
This Recorded Future report uses ChatGPT itself, sometimes in its own words, to demonstrate its functionality, rationalize its use and abuse, and replicate threats that currently exist in the cybercriminal underground. Link to full report, below.
RF_ChatGPT (1).pdf
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