Threat actors are weaponizing the OpenAI Assistants Application Programming Interface (API) to deploy a backdoor and manage compromised devices remotely. The backdoor was discovered by Microsoft ...

On Monday, Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) researchers warned that an OpenAI API was being abused as a backdoor for malware. The researchers concluded that bad actors were using the novel ...

Hackers have found a new use for OpenAI's Assistants API – not to write poems or code, but to secretly control malware.… Microsoft this week detailed a previously unseen backdoor dubbed "SesameOp," ...

Microsoft uncovers a months-long campaign where threat actors used OpenAI’s legitimate API as a covert command-and-control channel, bypassing traditional detection methods. In a newly uncovered ...

A new backdoor uses an OpenAI API for command-and-control (C2) communications to covertly manage malicious activities within a compromised environment, demonstrating a unique way attackers can abuse ...