Scam Attacks Taking Advantage of the Popularity of the Generative AI Wave
Summary: Unit 42 tracked roughly 225 GenAI-related domains registered daily since ChatGPT's November 2022 launch, with spikes tied to specific events: Microsoft's Bing integration on Feb. 7, 2023, the GPT-4 release on March 14, 2023, the GPTs announcement on Nov. 6, 2023, and Sora news after Feb. 15, 2024, when about 760 such domains were registered per day for a week. The average suspicious rate for these domains is 28.75%, 22 times higher than general newly registered domains, and over 72% of them use keywords like gpt or chatgpt, with gpt alone showing a 76% suspicious rate.
What's compelling: Among the 50 most popular GenAI-related domains, 44% were identified as suspicious, and those 22 domains account for 16% of all GenAI-related traffic - meaning scam infrastructure is not sitting in obscure corners but ranking among the sites users actually reach.
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