ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Bypass: Phishing, Malware Delivery, and Silent Data Exfiltration
Research by: Alexey Bukhteyev Key Takeaways Introduction Earlier this year, Check Point Research disclosed a security flaw in ChatGPT’s code-execution runtime that allowed sensitive conversation data to be silently exfiltrated to an attacker-controlled server through DNS tunneling, a hidden outbound channel that bypassed the runtime’s network isolation. A fix for this issue was promptly deployed. […] The post ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Bypass: Phishing, Malware Delivery, and Silent Data Exfiltration appeared first on Check Point Research .
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