Security News > 2023 > July > How is the Dark Web Reacting to the AI Revolution?

Threat actors are already engaging in rigorous discussions of how language models can be used for everything from identifying 0-day exploits to craft spear-phishing emails.

Threat exposure management firm Flare has identified more than 200,000 OpenAI credentials currently being sold on the dark web in the form of stealer logs.

While this is undoubtedly concerning, the statistic only begins to scratch the surface of threat actors' interests in ChatGPT, GPT-4, and AI language models more broadly.

Commercially-minded cybercriminals will likely increasingly employ quickly proliferating open source AI language models.

The use of generative AI will likely enable cybercriminals to launch attacks against thousands of users with customized messages gleaned from data from social media accounts, OSINT sources, and online databases, dramatically increasing the threat to employees from email phishing.

Semi-autonomous language models could quickly and abruptly shift the threat landscape by automating exposure detection at scale for threat actors.

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