– HP threat report
– It has been revealed how hackers now use Al-generated codes to inject malware into devices
The revelation is coming from an HP threat report, and it found that hackers are moving beyond using AI tools to lure victims through phishing attacks.
Instead, they use generative AI models to write hundreds of lines of malicious code in a matter of minutes, the new research published on Tuesday, September 24 said.
According to the report, the hackers used a malicious campaign targeting French speakers, even as they sought to access and record victims’ screens and keystrokes.
The report identified the malware being deployed for this bad act as AsyncRAT.
According to the HP threat report, the said malware, contained code that was written in VBScript and JavaScript programming languages with the help of generative AI tools, as per the report.
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“The structure of the scripts, comments explaining each line of code, and the choice of native language function names and variables are strong indications that the threat actor used GenAI to create the malware,” it said.
“The activity shows how GenAI is lowering the bar for cybercriminals to infect endpoints,” HP Wolf Security said.
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