Microsoft's AI-Powered Bing Chat Ads May Lead Users to Malware-Distributing Sites
Sep 29, 2023
Artificial Intelligence / Malware
Malicious ads served inside Microsoft Bing's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot are being used to distribute malware when searching for popular tools. The findings come from Malwarebytes, which revealed that unsuspecting users can be tricked into visiting booby-trapped sites and installing malware directly from Bing Chat conversations. Introduced by Microsoft in February 2023, Bing Chat is an interactive search experience that's powered by OpenAI's large language model called GPT-4 . A month later, the tech giant began exploring placing ads in the conversations. But the move has also opened the doors for threat actors who resort to malvertising tactics and propagate malware. "Ads can be inserted into a Bing Chat conversation in various ways," Jérôme Segura, director of threat intelligence at Malwarebytes, said . "One of those is when a user hovers over a link and an ad is displayed first before the organic result." In an example highli...
