The cybersecurity vendor Checkpoint recently demonstrated that ChatGPT
can successfully conduct a full infection flow, from creating a convincing
spear-phishing email to running a reverse shell-attack
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51% of IT decision makers believe there will be a
successful cyberattack credited to ChatGPT within the
coming 12 months
(source: Blackberry)
Criminals can utilize LLMs in numerous ways to accelerate cybercrime
activities, including:
Financial crime
LLMs could be leveraged to effortlessly create false documentation on a
mass scale to facilitate financial crimes. This could include generating fake
supporting documents, customer profiles, transaction records, financial
statements, invoices and contracts
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Human trafficking
Traffickers often use social media platforms and messaging apps to recruit,
groom, and exploit their victims. LLMs could be exploited to generate more
effective text and content, and to create it faster, which would be leveraged to
reach more victims
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Disinformation
The proliferation of fake news and disinformation pose an increasing risk to
national stability and public safety. LLMs have the potential to amplify this
threat by enabling faster and more widespread generation of fabricated news
articles, false or misleading information, and inflammatory content.
Experts have only begun to explore how criminals could exploit LLMs, therefore
law enforcement agencies must stay alert as additional use cases emerge.
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The Benefits
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About
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