{"id":13463,"date":"2024-07-17T16:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/?p=13463"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:23:38","slug":"ai-powered-synthetic-cancer-worm-represents-a-new-frontier-in-cyber-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/it\/2024\/07\/ai-powered-synthetic-cancer-worm-represents-a-new-frontier-in-cyber-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Il worm \"cancro sintetico\" alimentato dall'intelligenza artificiale rappresenta una nuova frontiera delle minacce informatiche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I ricercatori hanno presentato un nuovo tipo di virus informatico che sfrutta la potenza dei grandi modelli linguistici (LLM) per eludere il rilevamento e propagarsi.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Questo \"cancro sintetico\", come lo chiamano i suoi creatori, rappresenta quella che potrebbe essere una nuova era del malware.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Zollikofer dell'ETH di Zurigo e Benjamin Zimmerman dell'Ohio State University hanno sviluppato questo malware proof-of-concept nell'ambito della presentazione della domanda di partecipazione al progetto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aisafetyprize.ch\/en\">Premio svizzero per la sicurezza dell'intelligenza artificiale<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La loro creazione, descritta in dettaglio in un <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2406.19570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">carta per prestampa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> intitolato \"Synthetic Cancer - Augmenting Worms with LLMs\", dimostra il potenziale di sfruttamento dell'IA per creare nuovi attacchi informatici altamente sofisticati.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ecco una descrizione dettagliata di come funziona:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Installazione<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Il malware viene inizialmente consegnato tramite un allegato di posta elettronica. Una volta eseguito, pu\u00f2 scaricare ulteriori file e potenzialmente criptare i dati dell'utente.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Replica<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: La fase interessante sfrutta GPT-4 o LLM simili. Il worm pu\u00f2 interagire con questi modelli di intelligenza artificiale in due modi: a) attraverso chiamate API a servizi basati su cloud come GPT-4 di OpenAI. Oppure b) eseguendo un LLM locale (che potrebbe essere comune nei dispositivi futuri).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Utilizzo di GPT-4\/LLM<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Zollikofer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2438132-computer-viruses-can-spread-by-using-chatgpt-to-write-sneaky-emails\/?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_campaign=echobox&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1721192363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ha spiegato al New Scientist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chiediamo a ChatGPT di riscrivere il file, mantenendo intatta la struttura semantica, ma cambiando il modo in cui le variabili sono nominate e modificando un po' la logica\". L'LLM genera quindi una nuova versione del codice con nomi di variabili modificati, logica ristrutturata e potenzialmente anche stili di codifica diversi, il tutto mantenendo la funzionalit\u00e0 originale.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Diffusione<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Il worm scansiona la cronologia delle e-mail di Outlook della vittima e fornisce questo contesto all'intelligenza artificiale. L'LLM genera quindi risposte di posta elettronica contestualmente rilevanti, complete di tattiche di social engineering progettate per incoraggiare i destinatari ad aprire una copia allegata del worm.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come possiamo vedere, il virus utilizza l'intelligenza artificiale in due giorni: per creare il codice per auto-replicarsi e per scrivere contenuti di phishing per continuare a diffondersi. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inoltre, t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a capacit\u00e0 del worm di riscrivere il proprio codice rappresenta un problema particolarmente impegnativo per gli esperti di sicurezza informatica, in quanto potrebbe rendere obsolete le tradizionali soluzioni antivirus basate sulle firme. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Il lato dell'attacco ha alcuni vantaggi in questo momento, perch\u00e9 ci sono state pi\u00f9 ricerche in merito\", osserva Zollikofer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I ricercatori della Cornell Tech hanno segnalato un worm simile alimentato dall'intelligenza artificiale a marzo. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben Nassi e il suo team <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/html\/2403.02817v1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ha creato un verme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> che potrebbe attaccare gli assistenti di posta elettronica dotati di intelligenza artificiale, rubare dati sensibili e propagarsi ad altri sistemi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Il team di Nassi ha preso di mira gli assistenti di posta elettronica basati su GPT-4 di OpenAI, Gemini Pro di Google e il modello open-source LLaVA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Possono essere nomi, numeri di telefono, numeri di carte di credito, SSN, tutto ci\u00f2 che \u00e8 considerato riservato\". <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/here-come-the-ai-worms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nassi ha dichiarato a Wired<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sottolineando il potenziale di massicce violazioni dei dati.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mentre il worm di Nassi prendeva di mira principalmente gli assistenti AI, la creazione di Zollikofer e Zimmerman si spinge oltre, manipolando direttamente il codice del malware e scrivendo autonomamente le e-mail di phishing.<\/p>\n<h2>I timori per la cybersicurezza dell'intelligenza artificiale sono in agguato<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sono stati giorni tumultuosi per la sicurezza informatica nel contesto dell'intelligenza artificiale, con <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/it\/2024\/07\/hacktivists-steal-disney-data-citing-ai-related-data-acquisition-as-a-motive\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disney subisce una violazione dei dati<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> per mano di un gruppo di hacktivisti.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Il gruppo ha dichiarato che sta combattendo contro le aziende tecnologiche per rappresentare i creatori il cui lavoro protetto da copyright \u00e8 stato rubato o il cui valore \u00e8 stato altrimenti sminuito.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Non molto tempo fa, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/it\/2024\/07\/openai-data-breach-what-we-know-risks-and-lessons-for-the-future\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\"><span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\"><span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\"><span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\"><span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\"><span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\">OpenAI<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> \u00e8 stato esposto<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> per aver subito una violazione nel 2023, che hanno cercato di tenere nascosta. E non molto tempo fa, OpenAI e Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/it\/2024\/02\/microsoft-and-openai-intercept-global-ai-cyber-crime-threats\/\">ha pubblicato un rapporto<\/a> ammettendo che gruppi di hacker di Russia, Corea del Nord e Cina hanno utilizzato i loro strumenti di intelligenza artificiale per elaborare strategie di attacco informatico.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gli autori dello studio, Zollikofer e Zimmerman, hanno messo in atto diverse misure di salvaguardia per evitare abusi, tra cui quella di non condividere pubblicamente il codice e di lasciare deliberatamente vaghi i dettagli specifici nel loro documento.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Siamo pienamente consapevoli che questo documento presenta un tipo di malware con un grande potenziale di abuso\", affermano i ricercatori nella loro divulgazione. \"Lo pubblichiamo in buona fede e nel tentativo di sensibilizzare l'opinione pubblica\".<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nel frattempo, Nassi e i suoi colleghi hanno previsto che i vermi dell'intelligenza artificiale potrebbero iniziare a diffondersi in natura \"nei prossimi anni\" e \"scateneranno risultati significativi e indesiderati\".\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visti i rapidi progressi a cui abbiamo assistito in soli quattro mesi, questa tempistica sembra non solo plausibile, ma potenzialmente conservativa.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ricercatori hanno presentato un nuovo tipo di virus informatico che sfrutta la potenza dei grandi modelli linguistici (LLM) per eludere il rilevamento e propagarsi.  Questo \"cancro sintetico\", come lo chiamano i suoi creatori, rappresenta quella che potrebbe essere una nuova era del malware. David Zollikofer dell'ETH di Zurigo e Benjamin Zimmerman dell'Ohio State University hanno sviluppato questo malware proof-of-concept nell'ambito della loro candidatura al Premio svizzero per la sicurezza dell'intelligenza artificiale.  La loro creazione, descritta in un documento pre-print intitolato \"Synthetic Cancer - Augmenting Worms with LLMs\", dimostra il potenziale di sfruttamento dell'intelligenza artificiale per creare nuovi attacchi informatici altamente sofisticati.  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