ChatGPT Vulnerability Allows Threat Actors To Turn Web Pages Into Phishing Payloads

A newly disclosed vulnerability affecting OpenAI’s ChatGPT has raised fresh concerns across the cybersecurity industry, with researchers warning that the growing reliance on AI-powered web summarization tools may unintentionally create an entirely new phishing and attack surface.

ChatGPT Vulnerability Allows Threat Actors To Turn Web Pages Into Phishing Payloads. A newly disclosed vulnerability affecting OpenAI’s ChatGPT has raised fresh concerns across the cybersecurity industry, with researchers warning that the growing reliance on AI-powered web summarization tools may unintentionally create an entirely new phishing and attack surface. The vulnerability, dubbed “ ChatGPhish ,” was uncovered by researchers at Permiso Security, who say the flaw allows malicious actors to weaponize ChatGPT’s web summarization capabilities by embedding hidden instructions, phishing links, and attacker-controlled resources into otherwise legitimate-looking webpages. According to the researchers, the issue stems from how ChatGPT handles Markdown-rendered content retrieved from third-party websites. By trusting and automatically rende...