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ChatGPT, the sensational conversational app of Microsoft, has been identified as a threat to national security due to its increased sophistication in phishing scams. The Silicon Valley sophisticated sensation developed by OpenAI has become a part of every tech discussion on LinkedIn and Redditt these days. People believe that it assists threat actors in launching cyber-attacks.

Security firm Darktrace has found that ChatGPT has the potential to assist cyber criminals in launching phishing emails, enabling adversaries to track down more targets and personalize the attacks to such a level that they yield sure shot results.

Therefore, is the newly developed technology a bane to us? Well, it depends on the mind that is using it. ChatGPT is a beautifully carved conversational bot that has tons of information loaded onto it and is capable of answering anything and everything.

However, if the human mind desires to used to launch sophistication driven cyber-attacks, then what is wrong with the software then?

For instance, a group of scientists belonging to the department of Virology were researching about an influenza virus in a Chinese lab of Wuhan. The virus somehow leaked from the research facility and it spread into a pandemic called COVID 19, claiming millions of lives worldwide.

Here the issue is not with the development of virus, as in practical it was done to create a medicine against it. But some human mind, whether wontedly or innocently, leaked it to the world and today we have come to a stage where we are discussing our lives before lockdown and after lock down.

So, Darktrace has issued a statement that ChatGPT can be used as a catalyst to launch phishing scams. But at the same time, it has the potential to simplify our lives to a great extent……isn’t it?

NOTE- From March last week, Apple Inc will be introducing to its users a new app called WatchGPT, that brings in all the power of the conversational AI app to the wrist. It will be available in the Apple App Store from 21st of this month and will eliminate the need for users to open the browser, type the URL and then take advantage of the service.

 

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United States government has issued a warning against recruitment of IT workers from countries like China, North Korea and Russia. The reason is that the Biden led government suspects such recruitments might turn dangerous to the national infrastructure.

As of now, an executive order to not recruit people from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is doing rounds across all the federal agencies of the United States. And in the coming days, recruitments from China and Russia will follow.

Going into the crux of this story, companies willing to recruit foreign workers are being warned about picking workers from nations such as North Korea and two other countries from Asia.

This includes especially skilled labor in IT and Software sector and the order will also apply to those workers who are being recruited on freelance basis through platforms such as Fiver.

US State and Treasury Departments along with FBI feel such workers are taking advantage of freelance platforms and gaining contracts from countries such as US, Europe and Canada and are found sneaking into corporate networks to sniff of classical information that is then being passed to governments operating in adversary nations.

As most of the IT work is being conducted remotely, workers from some nations such as North Korea are using VPNs and fake identities to bag contracts, only to sell company secrets to interested hackers and nations across the world and make money to full fill the nuclear ambitions of Kim Jong Un.

Hope everyone from the recruitment sector is listening!

 

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