Category: Shorts

Zoom AI summaries of meetings you’ve missed Zoom now lets users use AI to catch up on missed meetings. With Zoom IQ — the app’s AI-powered assistant — hosts can now generate summaries of meetings and send them to users through Zoom Team Chat or email, all without actually recording the meetings. In addition, Zoom…

New Delivery Vectors Show Alarming Surge in TrueBot Activity A new malware called TrueBot has shown up on the radar in May of 2023. It’s been around since at least 2017, and its bad guys are using a variety of vulnerabilities in Netwrix software to spread their ransomware. The company behind the malware, a group…

Brazilian cybercriminals are using LOLBaS and CMD scripts to drain bank An unknown cybercrime threat actor has been observed targeting Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking victims to compromise online banking accounts in Mexico, Peru, and Portugal. This threat actor employs tactics such as LOLBaS (living-off-the-land binaries and scripts) along with CMD-based scripts to carry out its malicious…

Magento, WooCommerce, WordPress, and Shopify Exploited in Recent Web The idea, in a nutshell, is to breach vulnerable legitimate sites and use them to host web skimmer code, thereby leveraging the good reputation of the genuine domains to their advantage. This attack included the exploitation of Magento, WooCommerce, WordPress, and Shopify, demonstrating the growing variety…

The Annual SaaS Security Report: 2024 Plans and Priorities The SaaS Security Survey Report: Plans and Priorities for 2024, developed by CSA in conjunction with Adaptive Shield, dives into these topics and more. The report looks at saaS security incidents and more. It reveals that enterprises are increasingly concerned about the security of their cloud…

Microsoft: Lace Tempest hackers behind active exploitation of MOVEit Transfer app Microsoft has officially linked the active exploitation of a critical flaw in the Progress Software MOVEit Transfer application to a threat actor named Lace Tempest. CVE-2023-34362 relates to an SQL injection vulnerability in the MOVEIT Transfer that enables unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain access…

If Pinocchio Doesn’t Freak You Out, Sydney Is Safe In November 2018, an elementary school administrator named Akihiko Kondo marries Miku Hatsune, a fictional pop singer. Four years later, in February 2023, the American journalist Kevin Roose holds a conversation with Microsoft’s chatbot, Sydney, and coaxes the persona into sharing what her shadow self might…

Chegg embraced AI ChatGPT still ate its lunch Investors were surprised when Chegg, an online education company, revealed that ChatGPT was hurting subscriber growth. The company lost half of its market value overnight. But long before Chat GPT, its top brass had heard warnings about the threat and opportunity of generative AI. According to multiple…

Google’s AI-powered search is way too slow In May, Google introduced an experimental feature called Search Generative Experience (SGE) that uses its AI systems to summarize search results for you. It works. You don’t have to wait for long for a result anymore. See, traditional search engines like Bing and Yahoo! have no animation, but…

Apple CEO Tim Cook praises augmented reality every time In August 2016, Cook makes a brief mention of augmented reality in a Washington Post profile. He says that he thinks augmented reality is extremely interesting and sort of a core technology. In February 2018, during Apple’s Q1 earnings call, Cook describes “great excitement” around augmented…