ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, already gaining millions of users and causing tremors among businesses, including Google, StackOverFlow, and IT Professionals across the globe. However, ChatGPT is making the lives of cybercriminals a lot easier, as they are using it to generate everything from compelling phishing emails, potential passwords, and scripts for malicious codes, exploits, malware, ransomware, network scans, and other hacking toolsets. ChatGPT is also helping low-skilled cybercriminals kickstart their journey by allowing them to generate basic malware and other malicious payloads. Thus, ethical hackers must learn how to leverage ChatGPT’s capabilities to help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, using the tool to automate, accelerate and simplify offensive security tasks, such as automating enumeration and scanning, generating simulated phishing emails for internal testing, creating developmental exploit or payloads for analysis, developing report templates and other useful ethical hacking tasks.
The course will start with a thorough introduction to ChatGPT, including its history and working methodology. As you move along, you’ll learn about the benefits and limitations of ChatGPT, including step-by-step guidance on how to use the service. Next, you’ll gain an understanding of the potential cybersecurity dangers associated with ChatGPT, including how hackers are using it to gain an advantage over cyber defenders. You’ll then begin your ethical hacking journey with ChatGPT, starting with performing scanning and reconnaissance. Here, you’ll learn how to use the tool to conduct vulnerability and bug research, and you’ll then move on to understanding how to use ChatGPT to generate scripts for running vulnerability and network scans (Nmap, Wireshark, Nessus, and others) and how to use ChatGPT to perform reconnaissance.
Next, the course will illustrate how to use ChatGPT to perform enumeration and how to perform Fuzzing/Fuzz Testing using ChatGPT. You’ll also learn how to detect vulnerabilities in code using ChatGPT. You’ll then move on to understanding how to use ChatGPT for social engineering, where you’ll learn how to generate a Phishing email using ChatGPT and perform sophisticated social engineering attacks. The course will then illustrate how to perform password cracking using ChatGPT focused on Brute-Force methods.
You’ll then learn to identify or perform practical network attacks using ChatGPT, including using ChatGPT to analyze logs for suspicious DDOS activity, leveraging ChatGPT to automate log analysis, and create DDOS attack triggers. The course will then shift its focus on web application attacks, where you’ll learn how to perform SQL injection using ChatGPT (generating payloads), how to generate Blind Injection Payloads from ChatGPT, and how to generate XSS Payloads using ChatGPT.
The course will then demonstrate how to use ChatGPT for system hacking tasks, where you’ll learn how to use ChatGPT for abusing File Upload Vulnerabilities, how to use ChatGPT for buffer overflow attacks, and how to use ChatGPT for performing Privilege Escalation attacks.
You’ll then build competence in generating malicious shell scripts from ChatGPT, including creating Reverse Shell scripts using ChatGPT and developing Shellcode using ChatGPT. The course will then illustrate how to use ChatGPT for malware activities, where you’ll learn how to generate backdoor payloads from ChatGPT and perform malware analysis.
The course will also illustrate using ChatGPT to encrypt Folders and Files. You’ll then explore some other ethical hacking use cases for ChatGPT, where you’ll learn how to detect vulnerabilities in ChatGPT-generated code and exploit them. You’ll also learn to produce Ethical Hacking Report Templates from ChatGPT. As you near the conclusion, you’ll learn about a few best practices for working within ChatGPT, while the course will also illustrate how to discover indicators of ChatGPT usage in Exploits/Attacks. The course will wrap up with a look at how the future of cybersecurity will evolve into an AI vs AI battle between cyber criminals and defenders.
By the end of this course, you’ll be highly competent in the practical uses of ChatGPT when performing a wide range of ethical hacking activities.
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