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 5. 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 6 . 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 7 . 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. Leveraging LLMs in Other Criminal Domains Large Language Models and ChatGPT 2 Intro 1 Leveraging LLMs for Crime 3 The Benefits for Law Enforcement 4 The Impact of Future LLM 5 About Cognyte 6 Leveraging LLMs for Crime 3