Security News > 2024 > April > Prompt Hacking, Private GPTs, Zero-Day Exploits and Deepfakes: Report Reveals the Impact of AI on Cyber Security Landscape

AI's newfound accessibility will cause a surge in prompt hacking attempts and private GPT models used for nefarious purposes, a new report revealed.

Experts at the cyber security company Radware forecast the impact that AI will have on the threat landscape in the 2024 Global Threat Analysis Report.

"Pascal Geenens, Radware's director of threat intelligence and the report's editor, told TechRepublic in an email,"The most severe impact of AI on the threat landscape will be the significant increase in sophisticated threats.

SEE: UK's NCSC Warns Against Cybersecurity Attacks on AI. The Radware report stated that "As AI prompt hacking emerged as a new threat, it forced providers to continuously improve their guardrails." But applying more AI guardrails can impact usability, which could make the organisations behind the LLMs reluctant to do so.

In March 2024, researchers from AI security firm HiddenLayer found they could bypass the guardrails built into Google's Gemini, showing that even the most novel LLMs were still vulnerable to prompt hacking.

"Another threat the Radware report highlighted is the proliferation of private GPT models built without any guardrails so they can easily be utilised by malicious actors. The authors wrote,"Open source private GPTs started to emerge on GitHub, leveraging pretrained LLMs for the creation of applications tailored for specific purposes.

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