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OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
2025-01-19 19:03

The S in LLM stands for Security OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech...

Italy Fines OpenAI €15 Million for ChatGPT GDPR Data Privacy Violations
2024-12-23 06:42

Italy's data protection authority has fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI a fine of €15 million ($15.66 million) over how the generative artificial intelligence application handles personal data. The fine...

PyPI Attack: ChatGPT, Claude Impersonators Deliver JarkaStealer via Python Libraries
2024-11-22 06:15

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that impersonated popular artificial intelligence (AI) models like OpenAI...

ChatGPT allows access to underlying sandbox OS, “playbook” data
2024-11-14 16:08

OpenAI's containerized ChatGPT environment is open to limited yet extensive access to core instructions while allowing arbitrary file uploads and command execution within the isolated sandbox. [...]

ChatGPT-4o can be used for autonomous voice-based scams
2024-11-03 15:12

Researchers have shown that it's possible to abuse OpenAI's real-time voice API for ChatGPT-4o, an advanced LLM chatbot, to conduct financial scams with low to moderate success rates. [...]

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Search Chrome extension feels like a search hijacker
2024-11-01 20:25

OpenAI's new "ChatGPT search" Chrome extension feels like nothing more than a typical search hijacker, changing Chrome's settings so your address bar searches go through ChatGPT Search instead. [...]

Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code
2024-10-29 22:30

'It was like watching a robot going rogue' says researcher OpenAI's language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which...

OpenAI confirms threat actors use ChatGPT to write malware
2024-10-12 14:09

OpenAI has disrupted over 20 malicious cyber operations abusing its AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for debugging and developing malware, spreading misinformation, evading detection, and conducting...

Hacking ChatGPT by Planting False Memories into Its Data
2024-10-01 11:07

This vulnerability hacks a feature that allows ChatGPT to have long-term memory, where it uses information from past conversations to inform future conversations with that same user. A researcher...

ChatGPT macOS Flaw Could've Enabled Long-Term Spyware via Memory Function
2024-09-25 11:47

A now-patched security vulnerability in OpenAI's ChatGPT app for macOS could have made it possible for attackers to plant long-term persistent spyware into the artificial intelligence (AI) tool's...