AI-powered malware eludes Microsoft Defender's security checks 8% of the time — with just 3 months of training and "reinforcement learning" for around $1,600

An office worker has a "Blue Screen of Death" error on their Windows PC.

Security is increasingly becoming a growing concern among most people, especially as generative AI gains broad adoption and scales greater heights. In 2023, a study by Microsoft revealed that hackers were adopting AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI's ChatGPT to deploy their phishing schemes against unsuspecting users.

Now, bad actors are getting more creative and are coming up with ingenious ways to bypass sophisticated security systems and gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. In recent weeks, we've seen multiple users come up with well-curated scams to lower ChatGPT's guardrails, prompting the tool to generate valid Windows 10 activation keys.