Android Malware Disguised As ChatGPT Targets Smartphone Users: Report
A report on Friday revealed a surge in Android malware disguised as the popular AI Chatbot ChatGPT.
It added, malware emerged following the release of OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, targeting users interested in using the ChatGPT tool.
Palo Alto Networks report underlined the two active malware clusters namely, a Meterpreter Trojan disguised as a ‘SuperGPT’ app and a ‘ChatGPT’ app that sends premium-rate text messages to numbers in Thailand, resulting in charges for the victims pocketed by threat actors.
It also said considering Android users' applications downloads from various sources other than official Google Play store there are chances that users are obtaining applications not examined by Google.
Furthermore, the study said, the digital code-signing certificate used in the malware samples is associated with an attacker identified as ‘Hax4Us’, a certificate used across multiple malware samples.
