Category: Shorts

Bing Chat AI is now open to everyone Microsoft today officially launches an update to Bing Chat with new features and plug-in support. It comes two months after the company experimented with removing the waitlist for its new Bing Chat feature. More features and enhancements are promised for the chat platform, including image and video…

Lobshot: A Stealthy, Financial Trojan and Info Stealer Delivered through In yet another example of how threat actors are using Google ads to serve malware, a threat actor has been observed leveraging the technique to deliver a new Windows-based financial trojan and information stealer called LoBSHOT. LOBSSHOT continues to collect victims while staying under the…

Apple and Google Join Forces to Stop Unauthorized Location-Tracking Apple and Google have teamed up to develop a specification for Bluetooth location-tracking devices. The goal is to standardize the alerting mechanisms and minimize opportunities for misuse across Bluetooth location tracking devices. In doing so, they will make devices that support the new technology compatible with…

Operation SpecTor: A Dark Web Drug Bust That Resulted In $53.4 The drug traffickers are confident that, by operating anonymously on the dark web, they can operate outside the bounds of the law. An international law enforcement operation dubbed Operation SpecTor has resulted in the arrest of 288 vendors and buyers who are believed to…

Chinese hacker group Earth Longzhi resurfaces with more advanced malware tactics This is not the first time that Earth Longzhi has leveraged the BYOVD technique, and its attacks against organizations in East and Southeast Asia and Ukraine date back to November 2022. According to the company’s research, earth longzhi remains active and continues to improve…

Google Introduces Paswordsless Secure Sign-In with Passkeys for Google Accounts Passkeys, backed by the FIDO Alliance, are a more secure way to sign in to apps and websites without having to use a traditional password. Passkeys are resistant to online attacks like phishing, making them more secure than things like SMS one-time codes. Almost five…

A Data Augmentation Approach for Brain Lesion Segmentation from China In this paper, the authors describe a new approach called CarveMix, which was proposed as a data augmentation technique for brain lesion segmentation. They use a set of 3D annotated images with brain lesions to train a neural network to analyze brain tissue. The goal…

FTC pushes to end Meta’s profiting off children’s data On Wednesday, the FTC announced that it plans to make some changes to how Meta operates. The agency accuses the company of violating child privacy protections under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and COPPA. The violations arose from an independent assessor’s review of Meta’s privacy…

North Korea’s ScarCruft malware group has been observed deploying a new remote access tro The North Korean threat actor ScarCruft started experimenting with oversized LNK files as a delivery route for RokRAT malware in July 2022, the same month that Microsoft began blocking macros across Office documents by default. Other bespoke malware used by the…

Meta security analysts warn of fake ChatGPT apps In the company’s new Q1 security report, Meta admits that there are broad occurrences of fake ChatGPT malware that exists to hack user accounts and take over business pages. It also notes that these malicious bots are following popular trends and engaging people’s attention. For any business…