According to the security researchers, infostealers illicitly acquire collect just anything, be it information of a target machine, cookies and browser history, documents and so on. Hackers frequently make money off of this kind of bounty by reselling it on the Dark Web as well as using it themselves. For instance, logs containing the user names and passwords of victims for some popular applications are frequently transmitted to online markets.
According to a blog post by cybersecurity firm Group-IB published on June 20, over 101,000 devices with compromised logins for OpenAI’s flagship bot and were later traded on the Dark Web.
The aforementioned figure is apparently is “the number of logs from stealer-infected devices that Group-IB analyzed,” according to Dmitry Shestakov, Group-IB threat intelligence head.
“Every log contained at least one combination of login credential and password for ChatGPT,” he added.
A peak was apparently seen in May last year, where nearly 27,000 ChatGPT-related information was made available on the illegal marketplaces.
Less than 5,000 infected devices out of the whole sample size could be tracked back to North America. The two countries with
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