Category: Shorts

How ChatGPT and Bots Like It Can Spread Malware AI applications are rapidly advancing and being used for multiple purposes, including malicious ones. Europol’s recent report found that AI models are now able to produce convincing text without any human effort, making phishing attacks and other security threats more difficult to detect. Though some AI…

Mrs. Davis Gets AI Right—Because It’s a Comedy AI Right— Mrs. Davis is a new Peacock series featuring an app-based antagonist who drives both users and non-users mad. The AI exists to crowdsource acts of service and awards ‘wings’ to its most benevolent users. However, Mrs. Davis is not an evil tech, as it can…

Max Levchin on How AI Will and Won’t Shape the Way You Pay Max believes that credit cards are not the best structure for consumers and suggests that buy now, pay later is a better model for people to use. He argues that people should have a sense of control and certainty when it comes…

Pakistani Hackers Use Linux Malware Poseidon to Target Indian Government Officials Transparent Tribe, an APT actor based in Pakistan, has been using a fake two-factor authentication tool to deliver a Linux backdoor called Poseidon to Indian government agencies. The malicious version of the Kavach app is distributed through rogue sites disguised as legitimate Indian government…

Apple’s mixed reality headset: everything we know Apple is predicted to release a virtual and augmented reality headset called the Reality Pro in 2023 at its Worldwide Developers Conference. It would have features such as eye and hand tracking, xrOS, FaceTime calls, Apple Books, games, and an external battery pack. It is rumored to cost…

Google Chrome Update Released to Address Second Zero-Day Attack Google has released emergency fixes to address a high-severity zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The flaw, discovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), is an integer overflow in an open source 2D graphics library. The tech giant is aware of active exploitation of the…

Google Meet now lets you focus on your meeting Google Meet has added the ability to switch off individual feeds to help reduce distractions during a meeting. This includes blocking out virtual backgrounds or animals that might appear in someone’s webcam. It won’t notify the person whose feed has been switched off, and the meeting…

Microsoft is naming hackers after weather conditions like storms, typhoons, and blizzards Microsoft has launched a new naming taxonomy to track cyber attacks, in which hackers are named after weather events like storms, typhoons, and blizzards. They will be divided into five key groups; nation-state actors, financially motivated actors, private sector offensive actors, influence operations,…

Smaller Surface Pro and Arm-powered Surface Go reportedly in the works for Microsoft Microsoft is reportedly developing two new Surface devices: a smaller 11-inch Surface Pro and a new Surface Go 4 model. The 11-inch Surface Pro is said to include a 120Hz display and the Surface Go 4 is said to be powered by…

Google Tag Manager Warns of Russian Hackers Conducting Phishing Attacks in Ukraine Russia’s military intelligence service is responsible for multiple phishing campaigns targeting hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and influence public discourse in the country. The group has been active since 2009 and has been linked to the 85th Special Service Center,…