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Hackers use HTML smuggling to infect European ministries with PlugX A Chinese nation-state group has been using HTML smuggling techniques to deliver the PlugX remote access trojan on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Check Point said the activity, dubbed SmugX, has been ongoing since at least December 2022. The campaign uses new delivery methods to deploy…

CISA Warns of 8 Actively Exploited Flaws in Samsung and D The U.S. government’s CISA has added eight new vulnerabilities to its list of known exploits for mobile devices, including six flaws affecting Samsung phones and two involving D-Link devices. It’s not clear yet if any of the flaws are being exploited in the wild.…

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How to Find Images Faster With Google Bard As time goes on, these tools will of course get smarter and bolt on more functions, such as being able to scour the web for images. That’s a feature that just got added to the ChatGPT rival Google Bard. You can ask for pictures directly, as you…

Evasive Medusa Stealer Targets 19 Password Managers and 76 Crypto Wallets In yet another sign of the littler crimeware-as-a-service ecosystem, cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows-based information stealer called Meduza Stealer. According to the report, Uptycs, this new piece of malware has a singular objective: comprehensive data theft. Its most advanced features include the…

BlackCat Ransomware Operators Distributing Disguised WinSCP Malvertising This is just the latest example of malvertising tricks to distribute rogue installers of the WinSCP file transfer application. Trend Micro has published an analysis describing how ransomware actors use the Google Ads platform to serve malware. The malware in this case was a webpage of the well-known…

What Happens If You Run A Transformer Model With An Optical Neural Network? The authors present a summary of their major contributions to the field of deep learning and its applications. In this paper, they address concerns over the energy consumption, speed, and feasibility of large-scale deep learning on optical platforms. They demonstrate that linear…

CMU Researchers Introduce FROMAGe: An AI Model That Generates Free- In this article, the authors demonstrate how to effectively use a frozen language model’s capabilities for multi-modal (picture and text) input and output. They train the language model to learn a new [RET] token that stands in for an image for image-text retrieval. It has…

My Face, My Choice: Researchers Introduce A Privacy-Enhancing Anonymization Anonymization is a critical problem in the context of face recognition and identification algorithms. Controversies and ethical concerns have marred the state of the art in face recognition systems. Counter-manipulation techniques such as blurring and masking have been employed to turn off face recognition, but they…

What is an FPGA and what are its uses in artificial intelligence? A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit that can be configured and customized after manufacturing. It enables a company to integrate AI into its existing applications. Using FPGAs, AI capabilities like deep packet inspection or financial fraud detection can be…