Digital fraudsters are as enamored with ChatGPT as everyone else on the internet and have taken advantage its allure to spread a new strain of malware across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in recent months.
Since March, Meta has blocked more than 1,000 unique ChatGPT-themed web addresses designed to deliver malicious software to users’ devices, the company
revealed Wednesday in a report on security issues across the company three major platforms.
“As an industry we’ve seen this across other topics that are popular in their time, such as crypto scams fueled by the immense interest in digital currency,” Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer, told reporters ahead of the report’s release. “So from a bad actor’s perspective, ChatGPT is the new crypto.”
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