From PC Mag: Google is resorting to a lawsuit to stop hackers from exploiting interest in AI to trick users into downloading malware.
The company is suing a group of scammers who’ve been abusing Google’s Bard AI brand to phish consumers. They allegedly created social media pages and ads that pretended to offer access to a downloadable version of Bard, Google’s ChatGPT competitor. In reality, the ads contained malware that compromised a user's social media accounts, Google says.
The same ads also suggested people would receive unlimited free access to Bard, but Google’s chatbot is already free. (OpenAI offers ChatGPT Plus for $20 per month.) According to Google's complaint, clicking the ads triggered a download for a RAR archive that contained a malicious browser extension. To open the RAR archive, the user had to type in a password from the ads.
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