[The Lost Bots] S03E03. The Rise of The Machines

!\The Lost Bots\ S03E03. The Rise of The Machineshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/05/CWfxAaUmZV248bvr4yKaK2.jpg Artificial Intelligence AI is both a profound topic and now, a practical one too: cybersecurity marketers in particular are loving the letters “A” an “I.” But exactly where a...

AI-powered content farms start clogging search results with ad-stuffed spam

A recent study by NewsGuard, trackers of online misinformation, makes some alarming discoveries about the role of artificial intelligence AI in content farm generation. If youve previously held your nose at the content mill grind, its probably going to become a lot more unpleasant. Content farms...

Hot Topics at Healthcare Conferences: From AI to Cyber Insurance Costs

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Reflections on the 2023 RSA Conference: Trends, takeaways, and the shift-left approach to cybersecurity

The 2023 RSA Conference brought together over 45,000 cybersecurity professionals from around the world to discuss the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in the field. Key themes that emerged at the conference included the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence AI,...

Removing the human: When should AI be used in emotional crisis? Lock and Code S03E09

In January, a mental health nonprofit admitted that it had used Artificial Intelligence to help talk to people in distress. Prompted first by a user's longing for personal improvement--and the difficulties involved in that journey--the AI tool generated a reply, which, with human intervention,...

How threat actors are using AI and other modern tools to enhance their phishing attempts

Phishing attacks are increasingly more targeted and customized than in the past. The proliferation of additional communications channels such as mobile devices and social media provides attackers with new avenues to phish users. The technology behind phishing attacks evolves as necessary for...

Research on AI in Adversarial Settings

New research: “Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries": As progress in AI continues to advance, it is important to know how advanced systems will make choices and in what ways they may fail. Machines can already outsmart humans in some domains, and understanding how to safe...

Breaking the Mold: Pen Testing Solutions That Challenge the Status Quo

Malicious actors are constantly adapting their tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs to adapt to political, technological, and regulatory changes quickly. A few emerging threats that organizations of all sizes should be aware of include the following: Increased use of Artificial Intelligence a...

Attacker can artificially inflate the token price and and gets more profit

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Attacker can cause the artificial inflation in token price and gets more profit Proof of Concept Let assume the inital values totalFunds = 10000000000 , VAULTTOKEN.totalSupply = 100000000000 , totalQueuedWithdrawals= 1000000 function initiateDepositaddre...

Augmented Software Engineering in an AI Era

Artificial Intelligence AI has been making waves in many industries, and software engineering is no exception. AI has the potential to revolutionize the way software is developed, tested, and maintained, bringing a new level of automation and efficiency to the field. However, with this...

ChatGPT: A tool for offensive cyber operations?! Not so fast!

ChatGPT: A tool for offensive cyber operations?! Not so fast! By Trellix · March 09, 2023 This story was also written by John Rodriguez. To ChatGPT or to not ChatGPT? That is a predominant question in the cyber landscape these days. It’s no surprise that AI bots have taken society by storm. On th...

The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets

After successful autonomous flight tests in December, the military is ramping up its plans to bring artificial intelligence to the skies...

Dumb Password Rules

Examples of dumb password rules. There are some pretty bad disasters out there. My worst experiences are with sites that have artificial complexity requirements that cause my personal password-generation systems to fail. Some of the systems on the list are even worse: when they fail they dont tel...

3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming the Stock Market Landscape (and Making It More Secure)

By Owais Sultan The AI software market has rapidly grown over the past few years. And, based on expert forecasts, its… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming the Stock Market Landscape and Making It More Secure...

How to Use AI in Cybersecurity and Avoid Being Trapped

The use of AI in cybersecurity is growing rapidly and is having a significant impact on threat detection, incident response, fraud detection, and vulnerability management. According to a report by Juniper Research, the use of AI for fraud detection and prevention is expected to save businesses $1...

Artificial Inflation of Interest-Bearing Balances

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact It is possible to artificially inflate one's balance, compromising the integrity of the KIB token entirely. The vulnerability arises from how the balances are updated and utilize "stale" values that were loaded into memory. As such, a self-transfer would...

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Cybersecurity

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence AI has been a game-changer in many industries, and cybersecurity is no exception. AI has revolutionized the way organizations approach security, providing new and innovative solutions for detecting and mitigating cyber threats. However, with its increasing use, i...

Massive AdSense Fraud Campaign Uncovered - 10,000+ WordPress Sites Infected

The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use more than 70 bogus domains mimicking URL shorteners and infect over 10,800 websites. "The main objective is still ad fraud by artificially increasing traffic to pages which contain the AdSense ID...

Bard AI Causes Google Losses of $100 Billion

By Habiba Rashid It turns out that the intelligence in Google's newly-announced ChatGPT rival, Bard AI, is a bit artificial at this moment. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bard AI Causes Google Losses of $100 Billion...

A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how: Lock and Code S04E03

In 2020, a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet--her shorts pulled half-way down her thighs--was shared on Facebook, and it was shared by someone whose job it was to look at that photo and, by labeling the objects in it, help train an artificial intelligence system for a vacuum. Bizarre? Yes...