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500,000 devices infected by Vietnamese threat actor using ‘malverposting’ tactics A Vietnamese threat actor has been found to be behind a malicious campaign, known as malverposting, that has infected over 500,000 devices worldwide over the past three months. The attack involves the adversary creating business profiles and hijacking popular accounts to serve ads that claim…

Wanted Dead or Alive: Lateral Movement Protection in Real Time Lateral movement is a tactic used by cybercrime organizations and nation-state operators that is now accessible to any ransomware threat actor. It is the process of a compromise of a single endpoint becoming the compromise of additional workstations and servers in the targeted environment, and…

New Decoy Dog Malware Toolkit Discovered: Targeting Enterprise Networks Decoy Dog is a sophisticated malware toolkit that was discovered in early April 2023. It employs evasive techniques such as strategic domain aging and DNS query dribbling, and is rarely used with only 0.0000027% of the 370 million active domains on the internet matching its DNS…

ChatGPT and Other LLMs: How They Work and Where They Could Go Next ChatGPT and Google Bard are AI-powered chatbots that use large language models (LLMs) to take over web searches, generate creative literature, and remember knowledge. LLMs use neural networks to process huge amounts of text data from sources such as Wikipedia, Reddit, and…

Here Comes the Bride, With AI-Generated Wedding Speeches As wedding season approaches, some people are turning to artificial intelligence for help with their hitches. ChatGPT can generate poetic wedding vows, add jokes to toasts, and even help develop ideas for difficult conversations. Joy, a popular wedding-planning website, has an AI tool built on ChatGPT to…

Bing AI SwiftKey comes on Samsung Galaxy devices Microsoft’s Bing AI is now being integrated into SwiftKey, a software keyboard, and will soon be automatically installed on modern Samsung Galaxy devices. This means that users of the One UI Android launcher, which includes the SwiftKey keyboard, will have direct access to Bing AI. Microsoft also…

Meta’s next VR gaming show will be held in June. Meta is hosting its third annual Quest Gaming Showcase on June 1st. The virtual event will feature over 40 minutes of content, including game announcements, first looks, updates, and a preshow and postshow. Past events included games like Resident Evil 4, Among Us VR, and…

ChatGPT returns to Italy after addressing data privacy concerns OpenAI has officially returned to Italy after meeting the data protection authority’s demands. The AI chatbot service was temporarily blocked in Italy due to data protection laws. The company has implemented a number of measures to ensure user privacy, such as filters to remove hate speech,…

CISA Warns of Critical Flaws in Illumina’s DNA Sequencing Instruments – CISA has released an advisory warning of critical vulnerabilities in Illumina medical devices that could be exploited to eavesdrop on network traffic and execute arbitrary commands. The FDA has warned that these flaws could have serious implications, such as incorrect results, altered results, or…

Proposals to ban AI from singlehandedly launching nuclear weapons are being considered by lawmakers A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced the Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous AI Act, to prohibit the use of federal funds to launch a nuclear weapon using an autonomous weapons system that is not subject to meaningful human control. This…