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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Over 101,100 compromised OpenAI ChatGPT account credentials have found their way on illicit dark web marketplaces between June 2022 and May 2023, with India alone accounting for 12,632 stolen credentials.<\/p>\n

The credentials were discovered within information stealer logs made available for sale on the cybercrime underground, Group-IB said in a report shared with The Hacker News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of available logs containing compromised ChatGPT accounts reached a peak of 26,802 in May 2023,\u201d the Singapore-headquartered company said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Asia-Pacific region has experienced the highest concentration of ChatGPT credentials being offered for sale over the past year.<\/p>\n

\u201d Other countries with the most number of compromised ChatGPT credentials include Pakistan, Brazil, Vietnam, Egypt, the U. S. , France, Morocco, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

A further analysis has revealed that the majority of logs containing ChatGPT accounts have been breached by the notorious Raccoon info stealer (78,348), followed by Vidar (12,984) and RedLine (6,773).<\/p>\n

Information stealers have become popular among cybercriminals for their ability to hijack passwords, cookies, credit cards, and other information from browsers, and cryptocurrency wallet extensions.<\/p>\n

\u201cLogs containing compromised information harvested by info stealers are actively traded on dark web marketplaces,\u201d Group-IB said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdditional information about logs available on such markets includes the lists of domains found in the log as well as the information about the IP address of the compromised host.<\/p>\n

Typically offered based on a subscription-based pricing model, they have not only lowered the bar for cybercrime, but also serve as a conduit for launching follow-on attacks using the siphoned credentials.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany enterprises are integrating ChatGPT into their operational flow,\u201d Dmitry Shestakov, head of threat intelligence at Group-IB, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmployees enter classified correspondences or use the bot to optimize proprietary code.<\/p>\n

Given that ChatGPT\u2019s standard configuration retains all conversations, this could inadvertently offer a trove of sensitive intelligence to threat actors if they obtain account credentials.<\/p>\n

To mitigate such risks, it\u2019s recommended that users follow appropriate password hygiene practices and secure their accounts with two-factor authentication (2FA) to prevent account takeover attacks.<\/p>\n

The development comes amid an ongoing malware campaign that\u2019s leveraging fake OnlyFans pages and adult content lures to deliver a remote access trojan and an information stealer called DCRat (or DarkCrystal RAT), a modified version of AsyncRAT.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn observed instances, victims were lured into downloading ZIP files containing a VBScript loader which is executed manually,\u201d eSentire researchers said, noting the activity has been underway since January 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cFile naming convention suggests the victims were lured using explicit photos or OnlyFans content for various adult film actresses.<\/p>\n

It also follows the discovery of a new VBScript variant of a malware called GuLoader (aka CloudEyE) that employs tax-themed decoys to launch PowerShell scripts capable of retrieving and injecting Remcos RAT into a legitimate Windows process.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuLoader is a highly evasive malware loader commonly used to deliver info-stealers and Remote Administration Tools (RATs),\u201d the Canadian cybersecurity company said in a report published earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuLoader leverages user-initiated scripts or shortcut files to execute multiple rounds of highly obfuscated commands and encrypted shellcode. The result is a memory-resident malware payload operating inside a legitimate Windows process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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