OpenAI bans ChatGPT accounts used by Russian, Iranian and Chinese hacker groups

OpenAI has revealed that it banned a set of ChatGPT accounts that were likely operated by Russian-speaking threat actors and two Chinese nation-state hacking groups to assist with malware development, social media automation, and research about U.S. satellite communications technologies, among other things.

“The [Russian-speaking] actor used our models to assist with developing and refining Windows malware, debugging code across multiple languages, and setting up their command-and-control infrastructure,” OpenAI said in its threat intelligence report. “The actor demonstrated knowledge of Windows internals and exhibited some operational security behaviors.”

The Go-based malware campaign has been codenamed ScopeCreep by the artificial intelligence (AI) company. There is no evidence that the activity was widespread in nature.

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