The popularity of ChatGPT artificial intelligence platform has been exploited by hackers to access the information of users who want to use it.

In recent weeks it has emerged that a fake extension can be found in Chrome that gives access to users’ Facebook accounts and also creates unauthorized administrator accounts.

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“By hijacking high-profile corporate Facebook accounts, the threat actor is creating an elite army of Facebook bots and a malicious paid media device,” said Nati Tal, a researcher at Guardio Labs, in a white paper on The hacker news.

The plugin aimed to promote itself as a facilitator to connect to the ChatGPT service in a pop-up window while collecting meta account information.

Despite only being for 6 days, from March 3 to 9, it was downloaded by 2,000 users before Google removed it.

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guard He also indicated that they see a problem in trusting the big companies responsible for the online presence as they continue to allow both malvertising and bogus applications.

“These activities are likely to continue. So we need to be more vigilant, even in our daily casual browsing: don’t click on the first search result, and always make sure you don’t click on sponsored links and posts unless you’re pretty sure who’s behind it.”