Security News > 2024 > March > Immediate AI risks and tomorrow’s dangers
"At the most basic level, AI has given malicious attackers superpowers," Mackenzie Jackson, developer and security advocate at GitGuardian, told the audience last week at Bsides Zagreb.
These superpowers are most evident in the growing impact of fishing, smishing and vishing attacks since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022.
AI has not necessarily made attacks more sophisticated but, he says, it has made them more accessible to a greater number of people.
Jackson outlined some attacks that we can currently envision.
One of them is a prompt injection attack against a ChatGPT-powered email assistant, which may allow the attacker to manipulate the assistant into executing actions such as deleting all emails or forwarding them to the attacker.
He anticipates a rise in companies and startups using AI toolsets, leading to potential data breaches and supply chain attacks.