Category: Shorts

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 38 Flaws, Including Active Zero-Day Bug Microsoft has released updates for its customers that address 38 security flaws, including one zero-day bug that is being actively exploited in the wild. Eight of the flaws have been tagged with Exploitation More Likely assessment by Microsoft. The most important flaw is CVE-2023-29336, a…

Meta is making life harder for its users As part of the effort to test and learn from events, we’ve made the decision to discontinue the event creation tool. Beginning today, May 9th, you will no longer see the option to create events in Worlds. However, you’ll continue to see some official events featured in…

13 Domains Offering Criminal DDoS-for-Hire Services Seized by U.S. authorities have seized 13 internet domains that offered DDoS-for-hire services to other criminal actors. The seizure is part of an ongoing international initiative dubbed Operation Power Off that’s aimed at dismantling criminal DDoS infrastructures worldwide. This includes school districts, universities, financial institutions, and government websites. Ten…

Amazon could be hiding Anywhere in the world Amazon.com has invented a new shopping experience that lets you shop for real-world goods in games and virtual worlds. It works like this: In Niantic’s latest game, Peridot, you can buy items using your Amazon account. You can get an idea of how it all works in…

A Radical Plan to Make AI Beneficial, Not Destructive Anthropic, a startup founded by former OpenAI researchers, says it has a plan. Its goal is to use machine learning to build smart AI that won’t turn against its creators. It’s based on principles taken from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other…

ChatGPT user arrested in China for spreading fake news In a statement released by the police, Hong is accused of using ChatGPT to write fake news articles. The articles were viewed over 15,000 times before being removed. Chinese authorities have detained a man in the Gansu province and traced the articles to an independent company…

Anthropic AI startup wants to write new constitution for safe AI Anthropic is a bit of a unknown quantity in the AI world. Its current focus, Kaplan tells The Verge, is a method known as constitutional AI — a way to train AI systems like chatbots to follow certain sets of rules (or constitutions). The…

New Ransomware ‘CACTUS’ Variant Emerges That Exploits VPN A new ransomware strain called CACTUS has been observed at large commercial entities since March 2023, with attacks employing double extortion tactics to steal sensitive data prior to encryption. Learn how to stop ransomware attacks in their tracks with real-time MFA and service account protection in this…

Researchers uncover new server-based polymorphism technique used by SideWinder This latest SideWinder campaign targets Turkey, and it uses a server-based polymorphism technique to deliver the next stage payload. This comes shortly after Fortinet and Team Cymru disclosed details of attacks perpetrated by a Pakistan-based threat actor known as SideCopy against Indian defense and military targets.…

Operation ChattyGoblin: Hackers Targeting Gambling Firms via Chat A gambling company in the Philippines has been hit by a China-aligned threat actor. According to cybersecurity firm ESET, this is part of a campaign that has been going on since October 2021. ESET also notes that India- and Pakistan-linked threat actors Donot Team and SideWinder have…