FBI: AI Makes It Easier for Hackers to Generate Attacks

Re:FBI: AI Makes It Easier for Hackers to Generate Attacks by LinuxBender on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:00PM (#36944629)

I believe they should have instead phrased it something along the line of "AI facilitates a new generation of Skiddies [1] lowering the bar even further to malicious behavior without much technical knowledge." or something along that line. They're not wrong.

Now a person with little or no technical knowledge can ask an LLM in plain English how to generate a more complex script that does {x+y+z} vs. at least having to know some degree of a scripting language or being limited to one of the well known and defended against skiddie tools that only perform {x}. A theoretical example would be a low-tech person taking full control of an internet connected car on a live highway. It's been done by technically advanced researchers [2] but now the bar to entry is now a lot lower and LLM's may likely keep up with the latest working exploits.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiddies

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OobLb1McxnI [video][46 mins]

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Re:FBI: AI Makes It Easier for Hackers to Generate Attacks by cheald on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:36PM (#36946925)

On the other hand, GPTs often produce buggy code, and script kiddies are a lot less likely to be able to debug AI-generated code than they are to be successful running another human's hand-written exploit.

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Re:FBI: AI Makes It Easier for Hackers to Generate Attacks by LinuxBender on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:44PM (#36947062)

I could envision LLM's taking that even further given I am sure they will be used to manipulate people much in the same manor as social media algorithms, I could see skiddies being detected and then tricked into running code that will either not work or will brick their own devices assuming they clicked their way through a waiver of liability of damages at some point.

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