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'This makes social engineering much easier.'Īttackers will also be able to use AI to bring the public data together faster or look at areas that a human might not think to pursue, Mike Parkin, cyber engineer at Vulcan Cyber, tells CSO. The challenge is weaving this information into something useful - for example, turning publicly available information into a convincing phishing email, in an appropriate writing style. 'The fact that responses by ChatGPT are so human-like definitely makes it easier to create a believable conversion with a target,' he says. 'Finding material about a target is not the challenge faced by attackers today,' Maor tells CSO.

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For example, the OSINT Framework page lists hundreds of free public sources of information about people, companies, IP addresses, and much more. In fact, there's no shortage of publicly available information on the internet, says Etay Maor, senior director of security strategy at Cato Networks. 'ChatGPT just makes it more accessible,' Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM of security and collaboration at Cisco's Webex, tells CSO. With the new AI tools, however, the process can become much faster and more efficient, the lures more convincing. If an attacker wants to know what technologies a company is using, they can search job listings and resumes of former employees and manually correlate the data, then use it to create convincing lures.

Enterprises had tools that could do this, he says, for things like threat intelligence, but they cost millions of dollars and are certainly out of reach for small-time cybercriminals. That's something that traditional web search engines can't do. 'It can connect the dots and find the patterns,' he says. When combined with real-time search, it will give the bad guys a very powerful weapon. 'Generative AI takes regular humans and turns them into superhumans,' Dion Hinchcliffe, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research, tells CSO. In other words, it's already better than humans at most tests of knowledge and reasoning - and it can do it in the blink of an eye, for free, for anyone on the planet, in all the major languages. According to Open AI, the new AI's bar exam score rose from the 10% to 90%, its medical knowledge score went from 53% to 75%, its quantitative GRE score rose from 25% to 80%, and the list goes on. When ChatGPT was released in November 2022, hackers quickly jumped on the technology to help them write more convincing phishing emails and exploit code, but that was the old ChatGPT. Meanwhile, GPT-4 improved the AI which now has better reasoning skills, is more accurate and has the ability to see images.

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Concerns about the reach of ChatGPT and how easier it may get for bad actors to find sensitive information have increased following Microsoft’s announcement of the integration of ChatGPT into Bing and the latest update of the technology, GPT-4. Within a month of the integration, Bing had crossed the 100 million daily user threshold.

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