ChatGPT is changing the world, but is it giving hackers new tools to make malicious Mac malware? We interviewed a new Mac security outfit to find out.
It’s common knowledge — Macs are less prone to malware than their Windows counterparts. That still holds true today, but the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tools is challenging the status quo, with even the FBI warning of its far-reaching implications for cybersecurity.
As Stukalenko puts it, “Because of a growing quantity of Mac computers, macOS has become an attractive target for cyberattacks … Even the notable case of North Korea’s Lazarus Group, which became one of the first state-sponsored groups to target Macs last year, keeps us on high alert.” Another rising threat for Mac users? ChatGPT. While the chatbot itself is not malware, it has the potential to be misused by bad actors who, with some clever prompt engineering, can task it with writing malicious code for them. What do the engineers at Moonlock think about ChatGPT’s capacity as a hacker’s helper?
There’s some good news though. Even though ChatGPT can spin up functioning malware code, it is also prone to providing users with faulty outputs that behave weirdly, Stukalenko says, much like how some image generators create images of people with seven fingers. That’s similar to what cybersecurity experts told us when we quizzed them on the same topic in May 2023.
But as we’ve seen, no system is totally beyond the clutches of viruses, trojans, and the like. As Stukalenko explains, “the robust security safeguards and the perceived system’s invulnerability have built a myth that malware doesn’t exist on macOS.”
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