ZDNet

LokiBot malware now hides its source code in image files

The LokiBot malware family has been given a significant upgrade with the ability to hide its source code in image files on infected machines. Known as steganography, the technique is used to hide ...
InfoWorld

Is ChatGPT writing your code? Watch out for malware

Hackers have infiltrated a tool your software development teams may be using to write code. Not a comfortable place to be. There’s only one problem. How did your generative AI chatbot team-members ...
Dark Reading

Attackers Are Already Exploiting ChatGPT to Write Malicious Code

Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November, many security experts have predicted it would only be a matter of time before cybercriminals began using the AI chatbot for writing malware and enabling ...
ZDNet

People are already trying to get ChatGPT to write malware

The ChatGPT AI chatbot has created plenty of excitement in the short time it has been available and now it seems it has been enlisted by some in attempts to help generate malicious code. AI chatbots ...
Computer Weekly

Volume of unique malware samples threatens to overwhelm defenders

The cyber criminal underground continues to evolve its tactics in search of the quickest path to a payday, with greater volumes of attacks employing a more diverse range of malware than has ever been ...
Computer Weekly

How real and present is the malware threat from AI?

Over the last few months, we have seen a number of proof of concepts (PoCs) that demonstrate ways ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms can be used to perform many tasks involved in a typical ...
CSOonline

Polymorphic AI malware exists — but it’s not what you think

We are either at the dawn of AI-driven malware that rewrites itself on the fly, or we are seeing vendors and threat actors exaggerate its capabilities. Recent Google and MIT Sloan reports reignited ...
Bleeping Computer

A First Look at the North Korean Malware Family Tree

Security researchers have analyzed malware samples from threat actors associated with North Korea and discovered connections with tools from older unattributed campaigns. The research is spread over ...