Recently, a security expert named Benjamin Flesch made a startling discovery about the technology some of us chat with every day. This tech, called ChatGPT, has a weakness that could let bad actors overload websites with too many internet requests, a kind of cyberattack known as a DDoS.
Here’s the deal: ChatGPT works by sending out tiny internet explorers called crawlers to follow links and learn information. But Flesch found out these crawlers don’t check if the links they’re given are just slightly different versions of the same website. So, if someone wanted to, they could ask the ChatGPT system to visit one site over and over again. This could be like sending a crowd of people to a single shop all at once – way too many for the shop to handle.
The worst part is, the website getting overwhelmed wouldn’t even know who was behind it. The attack would come from various places, making it seem like it’s ChatGPT’s friendly bots doing the harm. It’s like a trick where the person causing trouble is hiding in a group, and no one can tell who it is.
Flesch tried to let the creators of ChatGPT and the people who handle the internet servers it runs on know about this problem. Sadly, it looks like they haven’t done anything about it yet. This means that websites are still at risk of being swamped by these invisible crowds.
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For the full story on ChatGPT’s weakness, you can read the original article here: www.csoonline.com/article/3806674/chatgpt-lucker-ermoglicht-ddos-attacken.html.