By Billy Hurley
Publication Date: 2026-02-26 13:43:00
An adversary who steals your ChatGPT conversations might see a lot more than your recent query asking “how do you dance at a party”—they might also figure out your organization’s intellectual property and strategy.
IBM, in its annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, reported that infostealers snatched 300,000 ChatGPT credentials last year. The finding suggests that AI is providing a new spin on a common cybersecurity threat, business email compromise, as adversaries target chatbots rich with potential IP, search histories, and strategy docs.
“Instead of a business email compromise, you have a threat actor hiding in the AI prompting. So, they can really just sit, and watch, and discover what you’re trying to develop,” Ryan Anschutz, North America leader for IBM’s X-Force incident response team told IT Brew.
Chat’s crazy. The integration of AI chatbots into business operations has “created a new attack vector for cybercriminals utilizing infostealer malware,”…