A U.K. security agency has stated there is a low chance that ChatGPT enables the masses to become cybercriminals.
The agency claimed that the public should feel safe in the government's ability to protect its data.
- Some
security experts have suggested that the tool could lower the barrier
to entry for less technically capable threat actors by providing
information on how to design ransomware and other threats.
- The
NCSC, however, has stated that it believes that tools such as ChatGPT
are likely to be more useful for saving hacking experts time than
teaching novices how to carry out sophisticated attacks.
- Chatbots
could be deployed to help technically proficient threat actors with
poor linguistic skills to craft more convincing phishing emails in
multiple languages, it warned.
- An attacker who is struggling to
escalate privileges or find data might ask an AI-powered chatbot and
receive an answer that's not unlike a search engine result but with more
context.
