Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech

Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing...

Snapchat wants to put your AI-generated face in its ads

Snapchat is reserving the right to use your selfie images to power Cameos, Generative AI, and other experiences on Snapchat, including ads, according to our friends at 404 Media, The Snapchat Support page about its My Selfie feature says: “You’ll take selfies with your Snap camera or select image...

The top stories coming out of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference

Over the next two weeks, two of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world will take place in Las Vegas: Black Hat and DEF CON. That means product announcements, buzzwords and stories about "X smart appliance could burn your house down!" or something like that. Over the next two weeks, Il...

AI Pulse: Brazil Gets Bold with Meta, Interpol’s Red Flag & more

The second edition of AI Pulse is all about AI regulation: what’s coming, why it matters, and what might happen without it. We look at Brazil’s hard não to Meta, how communities are pushing back against AI training data use, Interpol’s warnings about AI deepfakes, and more...

New Research in Detecting AI-Generated Videos

The latest in what will be a continuing arms race between creating and detecting videos: The new tool the research project is unleashing on deepfakes, called "MISLnet", evolved from years of data derived from detecting fake images and video with tools that spot changes made to digital video or...

Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Understanding Modern Cyber Attacks

In today's cybersecurity landscape, staying ahead of evolving threats is crucial. The State of Security Panel from our Take Command summit held May 21st delved into how artificial intelligence AI is reshaping cyber attacks and defenses. The discussion highlighted the dual role of AI in...

Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Understanding Modern Cyber Attacks

In today's cybersecurity landscape, staying ahead of evolving threats is crucial. The State of Security Panel from our Take Command summit held May 21st delved into how artificial intelligence AI is reshaping cyber attacks and defenses. The discussion highlighted the dual role of AI in...

New Threat Actor 'Void Arachne' Targets Chinese Users with Malicious VPN Installers

Chinese-speaking users are the target of a never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed Void Arachne that employs malicious Windows Installer MSI files for virtual private networks VPNs to deliver a command-and-control C&C framework called Winos 4.0. "The campaign also promotes compromised...

AI and the Indian Election

As India concluded the worlds largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologies--and what lessons that holds for the rest of the world. The campaigns made extensive use of AI...

Deepfakes and AI-Driven Disinformation Threaten Polls

Cheap and easy access to AI makes it harder to detect state-sponsored and homegrown campaigns during this election year...

Swalwell for Congress Campaign with Wolfsbane.ai Against AI-Generated Cloning

By Cyber Newswire Congressman Swalwell partners with Wolfsbane.ai, using advanced tech to shield his 2024 campaign from AI deepfakes and safeguard election integrity. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Swalwell for Congress Campaign with Wolfsbane.ai Against AI-Generated...

From Deepfakes to Malware: AI's Expanding Role in Cyber Attacks

Large language models LLMs powering artificial intelligence AI tools today could be exploited to develop self-augmenting malware capable of bypassing YARA rules. "Generative AI can be used to evade string-based YARA rules by augmenting the source code of small malware variants, effectively loweri...

Chinese Hackers Using Deepfakes in Advanced Mobile Banking Malware Attacks

A Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed GoldFactory has been attributed to the development of highly sophisticated banking trojans, including a previously undocumented iOS malware called GoldPickaxe that's capable of harvesting identity documents, facial recognition data, and intercepting SMS...

YouTube Crypto Con: Scammers Rake in $600K with Deepfakes and QR Codes

By Waqas Bitdefender's latest research reveals that crypto scams on YouTube are at an all-time high, with no sign of slowing down in the near future. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: YouTube Crypto Con: Scammers Rake in $600K with Deepfakes and QR Codes...

Interpol Nets $300 Million, Arrests 3,500 in Major Cyber Crime Bust

By Deeba Ahmed From NFTs to Sextortion: AI & Deepfakes Fuel New Scams Exposed in Interpol Cyber Sting - The global arrests were part of Interpol's operation HAECHI IV. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Interpol Nets $300 Million, Arrests 3,500 in Major Cyber Crime Bust...

Generative AI Security: Preventing Microsoft Copilot Data Exposure

Microsoft Copilot has been called one of the most powerful productivity tools on the planet. Copilot is an AI assistant that lives inside each of your Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, and so on. Microsoft's dream is to take the drudgery out of daily work and let human...

Deepfakes Are Being Used to Circumvent Facial Recognition Systems

By Habiba Rashid Camera Injection Attacks: The New Threat to Facial Recognition Security. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Deepfakes Are Being Used to Circumvent Facial Recognition Systems...

The rise of AI-powered criminals: Identifying threats and opportunities

AIs influence is growing across the security space, bringing with it major implications for cybercriminals and defenders. The recent adoption of AI has raised significant concerns for cybersecurity due to the many ways that criminals can use AI for disruption and profit. Defenders and law...

Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’

The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications...

ChatGPT helps both criminals and law enforcement, says Europol report

In a report, Europol says that ChatGPT and other large language models LLMs can help criminals with little technical knowledge to perpetrate criminal activities, but it can also assist law enforcement with investigating and anticipating criminal activities. The report aims to provide an overview ...