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ChatGPT from OpenAI is a conversational chatbot recently released in preview mode for research purposes. It takes natural language as input and aims to solve problems, provide follow-up questions or even challenge assertions depending on your question.
The security shop's research team said it has already seen Russian cybercriminals on underground forums discussing OpenAI workarounds so that they can bring ChatGPT to the dark side. We'd have thought ChatGPT would be most useful for coming up with emails and other messages to send people to trick them into handing over their usernames and passwords, but what do we know? Some crooks may find the AI model helpful in offering malicious code and techniques to deploy.
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You can ask ChatGPT to write code, but the results can be mixed. A common task of any SecOps analyst is sometimes having to process specific log files, grep for certain patterns and export them to gain meaningful insight into an incident or issue.
Within a few weeks of ChatGPT going live, participants in cybercrime forums-some with little or no coding experience-were using it to write software and emails that could be used for espionage, ransomware, malicious spam, and other malicious tasks.The Python code combined various cryptographic functions, including code signing, encryption, and decryption.
The NYC Department of Education has banned the use of ChatGPT by students and teachers in New York City schools as there are serious concerns about its use hampering learning and leading to misinformation. Microsoft is reportedly planning to integrate ChatGPT into Bing to give its search engine an edge over competitors like Google Search.
As with any new technology, the development and deployment of ChatGPT is likely to have a significant impact on the field of cybersecurity. In many ways, ChatGPT and other AI technologies hold great promise for improving the ability of organizations and individuals to defend against cyber threats.
For even the most skilled hackers, it can take at least an hour to write a script to exploit a software vulnerability and infiltrate their target. Soon, a machine may be able to do it in mere seconds.When OpenAI last week released its ChatGPT tool, allowing users to interact with an artificial intelligence chatbot, computer security researcher Brendan Dolan-Gavitt wondered whether he could instruct it to write malicious code. So, he asked the model to solve a simple capture-the-flag challenge.
OpenAI's newly unveiled ChatGPT bot is making waves when it comes to all the amazing things it can do-from writing music to coding to generating vulnerability exploits, and what not. Yesterday, BleepingComputer ran a piece listing 10 coolest things you can do with ChatGPT. And, that doesn't even begin to cover all use cases like having the AI compose music for you [1, 2]. Within six days of its launch, ChatGPT surpassed a million users to the extent its servers couldn't keep up.
From precisely spotting security vulnerabilities in your code, to writing an essay or an entire block of functional code on a whim, to opening portals to another dimension, OpenAI's newly launched ChatGPT is a game changer with its possibilities seeming limited only by your limitedness. Last week, OpenAI research labs unveiled ChatGPT, a chat bot that works from within your web browser-akin to the ones you've seen on websites offering customer support chat.