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Whiffy Recon malware triangulates infected device location via Wi-Fi every minute The authors of the malware load a new Wi-Fi scanning malware called Whiffy Recon onto compromised Windows machines. This new strain of malware uses Google’s location service to re-direct its victims to the adversary. The company describes the malware in terms of what it…

The Hidden Dangers of Using Public Wi-Fi According to the Forbes Advisor, the majority of people (56%) connect to public Wi-Fi networks that don’t require a password. However, there are some risks associated with these networks. These include: Man-in-the-middle (MITM) Attacks: This is one of the most common threats on public wi-Fi. Public Wi-FI networks,…

New Telegram Bot “Telekopye” Used to Power Large-scale Phishing A new financially motivated operation is leveraging a malicious Telegram bot to help scammers scam their victims. Jizba explains how this works: The attack chains proceed thus: Neanderthals find their mammoths and try to build rapport with them, before sending a bogus link created using the…

Zoho ManageEngine flaw exploited by Lazarus Group to deploy stealthy malware QuiteRAT, another trojan from the Lazarus Group, has been observed exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw to distribute a remote access trojan called QuiteRAT. The report says that quiteRAT has many of the same capabilities as Lazarus Group’s better-known MagicRAT malware, but its file…

ChatGPT is Going Back to School Too. Generative AI was feared to enable rampant cheating and plagiarism, and even make high school English obsolete. Some school districts outright banned ChatGPT from their networksSome people even worried that ChatG PT might enable cheating. But nearly a year into the generative AI hype, early alarm among educators…

Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups in a Bind for Computing Power Astria’s GPU-powered image generator is as busy as ever. According to the company’s founder, there is no end in sight for the GPU supply crunch. Companies like Astria that are developing AI technologies use graphics processors (GPUs) to train their algorithms. The chips…

Meta Releases Llama 2 Coding Version This is the second edition of the machine learning model that Meta has released. The first was called Llama 2. Now, the company has also released a version optimized for programming tasks. This new version of the model will be even more useful for academic research because it can…

The Myth of Open Source AI This morning, Meta releases another model, Llama 2 Code, fine-tuned for coding. This time, it’s free to download, modify, and deploy. It doesn’t come with a license, though. That said, other open source projects like GPT Neo from the nonprofit EleutherAI have been releasing more fully openAI models in…

Google, Amazon, Nvidia and other investors have put $235 million into Hugging Face Open-source AI model repository Hugging Face has raised $235 million in a Series D financing round. This latest financing brings the company’s valuation to $4.5 billion and helps it become a one of the many businesses benefitting from investors’ interest in generative…

Meta’s next Ray-Bans could let you watch videos and listen to audio with Meta may add a live video streaming feature to its next-gen smart glasses, which would let you livestream video to viewers who can talk back to you. Tech journalist Janko Roettgers has seen internal documents that show the second-gen Ray-Ban Stories will…