{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0038",
 "incident_id": "2025-06-openai-scopecreep",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-06-05",
 "date_occurred": "2025",
 "title": "ScopeCreep: Russian-speaking actor iteratively built a Go Windows stealer with ChatGPT, delivered via a fake game tool",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "consumer_chatbot",
 "initial_vector": "direct_misuse_for_malware_development",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "code_generation",
  "iterative_debugging",
  "evasion_design"
 ],
 "target_product": "ChatGPT",
 "target_vendor": "OpenAI",
 "autonomy_level": "assistant",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "malware_distribution",
  "credential_theft"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Distributed via a repository impersonating the Crosshair-X gaming overlay; samples reached VirusTotal but OpenAI saw no evidence of widespread distribution",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "capability_uplift",
   "opsec_account_rotation",
   "dll_sideloading"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "Model refusals",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "Accounts banned; malicious repository taken down with industry partners",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://cdn.openai.com/threat-intelligence-reports/5f73af09-a3a3-4a55-992e-069237681620/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-june-2025.pdf"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The actor distributed the ScopeCreep malware through a publicly available code repository that impersonated a legitimate and popular crosshair overlay tool (Crosshair-X) for video games.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "OpenAI is candid that the capabilities were 'not particularly novel' and that impact was likely mitigated by fast takedown - so real but small. The operator's opsec (temporary emails, one incremental code change per account, then abandon) is the durable lesson for detection.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Credential & Secret Theft",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "human_acted_on_output",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "ChatGPT wrote the stealer; the actor delivered it via a fake game tool",
 "vector_family": "misuse",
 "vector_detail": "direct_misuse_for_malware_development",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI03",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "openai",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "vendor_disclosure",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "credential_theft",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Credential & Secret Theft",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI03 (eai_category=credential_theft)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}