Category: Shorts

WordPress Sites Backdoor by Hackers Exploiting Outdated Plugin Malicious actors have been observed leveraging a legitimate but outdated WordPress plugin, Eval PHP, to gain backdoor access to websites. Over 8,000 websites have installed this plugin, with a skyrocketing 23,110 downloads in the last seven days. The attack chain entails installing the plugin and misusing it…

84% of Companies Use Breached SaaS Applications – Here’s How to Fix A recent review revealed that 84% of companies had employees using an average of 3.5 SaaS applications that were breached in the past 3 months. This is a result of the exponential growth in SaaS usage and security teams struggling to keep up.…

AuKill tool is used by ransomware hackers to disable EDR software in a BY Threat actors are using a new tool called AuKill to disable endpoint detection and response (EDR) software and deploy malicious software such as ransomware. The tool relies on an outdated version of a Microsoft driver to bypass a Windows security mechanism.…

Central Asian Hackers Tomiris Targeting Russian Intelligence Gathering Tomiris is a Russian-speaking threat actor that has been identified by Kaspersky as being focused on gathering intelligence in Central Asia. The group has attacked government and diplomatic entities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) using a polyglot toolset of low-sophistication “burner” implants coded in various…

GPT Can Help Chat Doctors—and Hurt Patients Robert Pearl, a former CEO of Kaiser Permanente and professor at Stanford medical school, believes that ChatGPT, a form of generative AI, is more important to doctors than the stethoscope. He knows of doctors using the bot to summarize patient care, write letters, and even diagnose patients. Companies…

AI Won’t Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime Soon AI typography experiments are sacrificing readability and accessibility in a misguided attempt to innovate. These experiments may be interesting, but they are not effective. AI should be used to assist typographers and make their work more accessible, rather than trying to supplant them. The digital revolution has already…

Create generative AI videos from your phone with Runway’s iOS app Runway, an AI startup, has launched a mobile app on iOS which uses their video-to-video generative AI model, Gen-1. Users can transform existing videos based on text, image, or video input, creating entirely new videos. Outputs are often strange, and the app has certain…

Google Authenticator Adds Account Syncing for Two-Factor Codes Google Authenticator has now added the ability to sync two-factor authentication codes to a user’s Google account, so that when a new device is set up and logged into, Authenticator will be ready to go. This makes it easier to access accounts in the event of a…

Apple’s App Store can stay closed but developers can link to outside payments, A federal court has ruled in Apple’s favor for nine of the ten claims in a case, reaffirming Apple’s victory. The App Store continues to promote competition, drive innovation, and expand opportunities for users and developers. Apple is considering further review for…

Is It the Patches? This AI Approach Analyzes the Key Contributor to the Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the standard for computer vision tasks for years, but a new architecture called the Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently outperformed them, especially for large data sets. ConvMixer is a convolutional architecture designed to analyze the performance…