The Next Frontier of Runtime Assembly Attacks: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Phishing JavaScript in Real Time


Imagine visiting a webpage that looks perfectly safe. It has no malicious code, no suspicious links. Yet, within seconds, it transforms into a personalized phishing page.

This isn’t merely an illusion. It’s the next frontier of web attacks where attackers use generative AI (GenAI) to build a threat that’s loaded after the victim has already visited a seemingly innocuous webpage. In other words, this article demonstrates a novel attack technique where a seemingly benign webpage uses client-side API calls to trusted large language model (LLM) services for generating malicious JavaScript dynamically in real time.

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Source: Palo Alto Unit 42


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