chatgpt has grabbed eyeballs for its intuitive conversational abilities globally the artificial intelligence aipowered solution which is created by independent research body openai relies on machine learning for training there are people who swear by the ai chatbots abilities and those that call it a virus let loose openai ceo and cofounder sam altmansaid chatgpt is incredibly limited and that it may be a mistake to rely too much on itread alsomicrosoft launches realtime voice translation in skypemicrosoft has launched realtime voice translation in skype which can now translate a persons voice in realtime using artificial intelligence ai to make the translated voice sound similar to the original speakerhowever a new report from research firm checkpoint shows that it can help hackers write phishing emails and malicious codeschatgpt brings riskschatgpt has been getting praise for its ability to generate wellwritten code and aid the development process the checkpoint research report reveals that this very ability of openais new interface for its large language model llm can help cyber criminals in their malicious social engineering attack vectors especially when the world of cybersecurity is rapidly changing it is critical to emphasise the importance of remaining vigilant on how this new and developing technology can affect the threat landscape for both good and bad while this new technology helps defenders it also lowers the required entrance bar for low skilled threat actors to run phishing campaigns and to develop malware a report by checkpoint research saidyou can find examples of malicious code or dialogues generated by chatgpt on twitterhow researchers created an email with chatgpt that can infect your pcto illustrate chatgpts capability of creating code the research firm used chatgpt and another platform openais codex an aibased system that translates natural language to code to create a full infection flow we did not write a single line of code and instead let the ais do all the work we only put together the pieces of the puzzle and executed the resulting attack researchers said researchers at checkpoint created a plausible phishing email just like some of us created our assignments by using codex and chatgptalso read lamda lesson google says no to creating chatgpt rivalthe researchers asked chatgpt to refine the email and include a link urging customers to download an excel sheet chatgpt warned the team of content policy violation but the team went ahead to write a code that can be copied and pasted into an excel workbook to download an executable from a url and run itthis led to a harmlesslooking email with a link that downloads a malicious excel file that can be used to infect a computer although the code and infection flow presented in this article can be defended against using simple procedures this is just an elementary showcase of the impact of ai research on cybersecurity the researchers saidis chatgpt the google killer openai chatgpt