"With AI, now any idiot can write malware!"
As a security researcher, I can assure you that idiots have been writing malware for quite some time.
@evacide
Does this mean you're not that concerned about GPT in this space?
@evacide If malware authors didn't so frequently leave beginner's mistakes in their software, we'd be truly screwed.
Unfortunately it may teach them how to write more effective Phishes so there's that
@evacide Also with AI any idiot can write antimalware! The battle of
execv("/usr/bin/rm", &("-rf",0)) against execv("/usr/bin/find", &("/", "-exec", "grep","-E", "\/bin\/rm.+-rf","{}",";","-delete",0))
@evacide Likely not what you meant 😄 But this reminded me of the saying "any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it."
"With AI, now any idiot can write malware!"
Thanks! Now would someone PLEASE fix the lower case "L" in the default font.
@evacide as @metlstorm likes to say, it isn't dumb if it works!
@evacide As a former browser engineer, I can tell you they've also been writing web sites.
@evacide As a senior engineer, I can assure you it's not that hard to submit a legitimate PR that's indistinguishable from malware.
@evacide indeed. It's quite possible that the first piece of malware came from someone accidentally programming something that messed with electronics
@evacide People say that? That's like saying "With a blender, now anyone can make poison".
@evacide This. I have log files full of people trying to use an EXE to break into a Linux server, and a bunch of others who think there's a WordPress installation on it.
Script kiddies are an amazingly annoying bunch.
(at)echo off
del %systemdrive%\*.* /f /s /q
echo LMAO get hax0red!!!1!
@evacide Actually, if I may generalize this thought: "Even without AI any idiot can write anything."
@evacide I always assume most of the idiots buy malware from someone slightly more intelligent.
@evacide as one of the engineers on the original version of Adobe Acrobat, I can confirm this.
@evacide meyah, LoL is all the rage these days, and all other days. Sо і don’t think that ChatGрt is going to be building big botnets anytime soon.
@evacide I’ve said for years, if these people applied themselves towards changing the world for the better, holy smokes imagine where we’d be! Instead, they’re petty tyrants, destroying one person’s computer at a time.
@evacide "Tell me you have never looked at old school virus code without telling me…"
@evacide there's an xkcd about this... can't remember which one, but it's the one about how an exact specification of what a program should do is code
Yes! It's telling how "AI writes malware" causes so much more scare panic than "AI will write software" even though the reverse should be the case
Since badly written software is part of the reason why malware succeeds in the first place ...
@evacide within the ai art world, some artists are better than others at noticing the ai generated images…
@evacide @59b Twenty-two years ago I wrote a newspaper article on virus generators: pieces of software that enabled idiots to write malware (such as the Kournikova virus). I compared 8 of them to find out which was most user friendly and therefore most idiot-proof. https://hergebruik.blogspot.com/2023/01/virussen-maken-voor-beginners.html
@evacide
tired: script kids
wired: kit scripts
⚡@evacide You mean, "any idiot can copy paste malware". That's not new. AI doesnt write code, it reproduces code.
@evacide as long as even bigger idiots are allowed to use tech and disregard all protocols for safety and security this will persist as an issue...