ChatGPT Is Enabling Script Kiddies to Write Functional Malware

Ars Technica

Dan Goodin

January 6, 2023

Participants in cybercrime forums, some with little or no coding experience, are using ChatGPT, an artificial-intelligent (AI) chatbot launched in November in beta form, to write potential malware, according to a report from security firm Check Point Research. One participant, for example, credited ChatGPT with providing a “nice [helping] hand” to what was claimed to be the first script that person had written. The script, Check Point researchers found, could "easily be modified to encrypt someone's machine completely without any user interaction." Check Point researchers themselves developed malware with full infection flow with the help of ChatGPT; they wrote, "The hard work was done by the AIs, and all that's left for us to do is to execute the attack."