{
 "id": "AIR-2022-0035",
 "slug": "chatgpt-abused-by-threat-actors-to-develop-malicious-softwar",
 "title": "ChatGPT Abused by Threat Actors to Develop Malicious Software",
 "summary": "Cybercriminals leveraged OpenAI's ChatGPT to write and adapt malicious code, ransomware, and other cyberthreat tools. The activity highlighted emerging risks in AI-assisted malware generation.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "ai_generated_malware"
 ],
 "severity": 3,
 "targets": [
  "OpenAI"
 ],
 "products": [
  "ChatGPT"
 ],
 "incident_date": "2022-12-21",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2022-12-21",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/443",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "ChatGPT Abused to Develop Malicious Softwares",
   "published_at": "2022-12-21"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.9,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "malware-development",
  "chatgpt",
  "cybercrime"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}