AI-generated malware may have been used in a recent campaign to spread the Rhadamanthys infostealer, researchers revealed Wednesday. A PowerShell script used to decode the base64-encoded stealer and execute it in memory was found to contain unusually detailed comments, which is a potential sign that the code was generated using a large-language model (LLM) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot, the Proofpoint researchers wrote in a blog post.

Source: SC Magazine