AI-Generated Malware Discovered in the Wild

Researchers found malicious code that they suspect was developed with the aid of generative artificial intelligence services to deploy the AsyncRAT malware in an email campaign that was directed towards French users.

While threat actors have employed generative AI technology to design convincing emails, government agencies have cautioned regarding the potential exploit of AI tools to create malicious software, despite the precautions and restrictions that vendors implemented.

Suspected cases of AI-created malware have been spotted in real attacks. The malicious PowerShell script that was uncovered earlier this year by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint was most likely generated by an AI system.

As less technical threat actors depend more on AI to develop malware, HP security experts discovered a malicious campaign in early June that employed code commented in the same manner a generative AI system would.

The VBScript established persistence on the compromised PC by

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