Three New IAM Attacks Using AI

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming modern society at unprecedented speed. It can do your homework, help you make better investment decisions, turn your selfie into a Renaissance painting or write code on your behalf. While ChatGPT and other generative AI tools can be powerful forces for good, they’ve also unleashed a tsunami of attacker innovation and concerns are mounting quickly. In the last week alone, several government officials and AI leaders have issued warnings about the growing AI threat:

• The Center for AI Safety released this one-sentence statement signed by more than 350 prominent AI figures: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

• The head of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission emphasized the need for vigilance, noting that the FTC is already seeing AI used to “turbocharge” fraud and scams.

• A panel of United Nations experts called for “greater transparency, oversight and regulation to address the negative impacts of new and emerging digital tools and online spaces on human rights.”

• The EU urged tech firms to “clearly label” any services with a potential to disseminate AI-generated disinformation…

The Cyber Hut Comment: PAM provider CyberArk have a research area and they often release IAM threat intelligence data via their blog. In a recent article they focused on 3 recent attacks based on artificial intelligence - all of which have gained popularity in recent months due to the spike in interest in tools such as ChatGPT.