From article:
"Researchers at security firm Check Point Research reported Friday (https://research.checkpoint.com/2023/opwnai-cybercriminals-starting-to-use-chatgpt/) that within a few weeks of ChatGPT going live, participants in cybercrime forums—some with little or no coding experience—were using it to write software and emails that could be used for espionage, ransomware, malicious spam, and other malicious tasks."
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/chatgpt-is-enabling-script-kiddies-to-write-functional-malware/
*sigh*
-Blast
The best way to combat this is with regular backups of critical data and a good quality A/V suite installed on all your devices.