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Sead Fadilpašić

Hackers are using GPT-4 to build a virtual assistant - here's what we know

A person holding out their hand with a digital AI symbol.
  • MalTerminal uses GPT-4 to generate ransomware or reverse shell code at runtime
  • LLM-enabled malware evades detection by creating malicious logic only during execution
  • Researchers found no evidence of deployment; likely a proof-of-concept or testing tool

Cybersecurity researchers from SentinelOne have uncovered a new piece of malware which uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 to generate malicious code in real time.

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