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A supermodel turned herself into an Epic MetaHuman Eva Herzigová, a Czech model, is now a MetaHuman, with a digital likeness of herself created by Epic Games. She was scanned in a 70-camera rig and participated in a motion capture shoot to create a realistic avatar. Her MetaHuman can be used for virtual fashion shows…

Google Authenticator App Gets TOTP Codes Cloud Backup Feature Google has released a major update to its Authenticator app, which is 12 years old, for Android and iOS. The update includes a cloud synchronization option which allows users to back up their time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) codes. This eliminates the hassle of switching between phones…

Protecting Financial Data Privacy: Exploring Techniques for Generating Synthetic Data in Finance Financial data is often sensitive and subject to strict privacy laws, making it difficult to use and distribute for research purposes outside of financial institutions. An alternative solution is to generate artificial data that mimics the characteristics of real data, protecting the confidentiality…

AI Approach Extracts Accurate 3D Meshes from Neural Radiance Fields NeRFMeshing is a novel method for accurately reconstructing 3D scenes and objects using neural radiance fields (NeRFs). It introduces a new structure called a signed surface approximation network (SSAN) that is built on top of trained NeRF networks and enables the extraction of precise 3D…

Simplify Vox-E: An Artificial Intelligence Framework For Text-guided Voxel Vox-E is a novel AI framework for text-guided voxel editing of 3D objects. It enables more localized and flexible object edits guided solely by textual prompts, which can encompass appearance and geometric modifications. It relies on ReLU Fields to represent the scene as a voxel grid…

New “EvilExtractor” Stealer for Windows Systems Surfaces on the Dark Web EvilExtractor is a new all-in-one stealer malware being sold by an actor named Kodex on cybercrime forums since October 2022. It is used for stealing data and files from Windows systems and has modules for environment checking, Anti-VM functions, system metadata, passwords, cookies, keystrokes,…

WordPress Sites Backdoor by Hackers Exploiting Outdated Plugin Malicious actors have been observed leveraging a legitimate but outdated WordPress plugin, Eval PHP, to gain backdoor access to websites.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…