Researchers at HP found a malware program written by generative AI “in the wild” while investigating a suspicious email.
Malware developers are now using generative AI to speed up the process of writing code, accelerating the number of attacks while essentially letting anyone tech-savvy develop malware.
In a September report from HP’s Wolf Security team, HP detailed how they discovered a variation of the asynchronous remote access trojan (AsyncRAT) — a type of software that can be used to remotely control a victim’s computer — while investigating a suspicious email sent to a client.
However, while AsyncRAT itself was developed by humans, this new version contained an injection method that appeared to have been developed using generative AI.
