{"id":38155,"date":"2023-10-12T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=38155"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:55:17","slug":"what-are-the-risks-of-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/what-are-the-risks-of-chatgpt\/38155\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the risks of ChatGPT?"},"content":{"rendered":"
ChatGPT was named the fastest-growing application of all time in January 2023, hitting the 100 million active users\u2019 milestone in a matter of months. Fast forward to June, and the website was generating roughly 1.6 billion monthly visits.<\/p>\n
But ignoring the hype, it is also important for businesses and security teams to recognise the security implications and potential risks of ChatGPT. From the leaking of confidential information to copyright and ethical concerns, there are risks relating to the use of the platform. Here are three that organisations should be aware of.<\/p>\n
From a security perspective, one big red flag is that ChatGPT itself has already been the victim of a data breach this year due to a bug in an open source library.<\/p>\n
On closer investigation, OpenAI revealed that this may have caused unintentional visibility of payment-related information of 1.2% of ChatGPT subscribers<\/a> who were active during a specific nine-hour window.<\/p>\n The platform\u2019s huge uptake in the last year means it is the ideal site for a \u2018watering hole\u2019 attack by threat actors.<\/p>\n If cyber criminals infect it successfully through other potentially hidden vulnerabilities and serve malicious code through it, they could potentially impact millions of users.<\/p>\n While ChatGPT has not been infiltrated directly so far, bad actors are believed to be leveraging it for their own means. Check Point Research<\/a> has highlighted examples where cyber criminals have begun using the platform to help develop malware code and create convincing spear phishing emails. The latter is likely to remain the primary use of ChatGPT among threat actors in the future.<\/p>\nCyber criminals are using ChatGPT<\/h3>\n