Fears realised? Gen AI being used to create malware, confirms HP security report

An ever-improving generative artificial intelligence (AI) is all fun and games till it isn’t. Deepfakes and realistic looking morphed content are problems the world is grappling with, and we can add online security threats to that. HP Inc., in their latest Threats Insights Report released at the company’s annual HP Imagine keynote, suggests generative AI is being deployed to help write malicious code. HP’s threat research team detected an instance of this—what they call a large and refined ChromeLoader campaign spread through ‘malvertising’ that leads to professional-looking rogue PDF tools. They also logged instances of cybercriminals embedding malicious code in SVG images.