Meta kills over 1,000 ChatGPT-related malicious spoofs

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Meta does the 'We found baddies and crushed them' thing again – this time for AI

Meta says it has shut down over 1,000 links related to ChatGPT that lead its users to malware, as criminals seek to profit from the current craze for generative AI.

ChatGPT has quickly bagged more than 100 million users, encouraging many organizations to explore how generative AI might help them increase productivity and profit. Scammers are, offering links and other stuff related to the chat bot to draw people into malicious websites that steal their info or offer downloads laced with malware. Meta claims it's spotted some of their work.

"As part of our most recent work to protect people and businesses from malicious targeting using ChatGPT as a lure, since March 2023 we've blocked and shared with our industry peers more than 1,000 malicious links from being shared across our technologies and reported a number of browser extensions and mobile apps to our peer companies," Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy and Ryan Victory, malware discovery and detection engineer at the social media platform,Security...

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