Staying One Step Ahead of Hackers When It Comes to AI
If you’ve been creeping around underground tech forums lately, you might have seen advertisements for a new program called WormGPT.
The program is an AI-powered tool for cybercriminals to automate the creation of personalized phishing emails; although it sounds a bit like ChatGPT, WormGPT is not your friendly neighborhood AI. ChatGPT launched in November 2022 and, since then, generative AI has taken the world by storm. But few consider how its sudden rise will shape the future of cybersecurity.
In 2024, generative AI is poised to facilitate new kinds of transnational—and translingual—cybercrime. For instance, much cybercrime is masterminded by underemployed men from countries with underdeveloped tech economies. That English is not the primary language in these countries has thwarted hackers’ ability to defraud those in English-speaking economies; most native English speakers can quickly identify phishing emails by their unidiomatic and ungrammatical language.
