Increasingly cyber criminals are taking advantage of the growing interest. artificial intelligence (AI) Attempting to deceive Internet users. meta, owner Facebookwarned of the rise in computer viruses camouflaged in tools like the popular this Wednesday. ChatGPT.
The social networking giant explains in its latest safety report that it has detected about ten species.malware‘ and over 1,000 malicious links. These programs AI In order to entice users to download it to their device, this will open the door to an infection on their system.
“From the criminal’s point of view, ChatGPT is the new cryptocurrency,” he explained. Guy RosenMeta’s Director of Information Security draws a parallel between this new issue and the following phenomenon: fraud with digital currencies. Cybercriminals immediately took advantage of the interest in technology to try to optimize their attacks. Now they are repeating this strategy.
Meta explained that it is preparing defense systems to stop potential abuses of “malware strains” that take advantage of people’s interest in ChatGPT. turn on AI tricking them into installing malware that pretends to offer artificial intelligence functionality.” Since March alone, the company claims to have blocked more than 1,000 malicious web addresses.
In addition to this issue, warnings have been added from experts that tools like ChatGPT can be used to speed up production. disinformation In a big size.