Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals
The company said Monday it was temporarily limiting new sign ups due to “large-scale malicious attacks” on its services.
PJobRAT makes a comeback, takes another crack at chat apps
Sophos X-Ops uncovers a recent campaign from an Android RAT first seen in 2019 – now infecting users in Taiwan
President Trump Signs Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence Policy, Charting a Path for U.S. AI Leadership
President Trump has signed an executive order aimed at reshaping the United States’ approach to artificial intelligence (AI) policy.
DeepSeek Hit by Large-Scale Cyber Attack, Temporarily Limits Registrations
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that recently dethroned OpenAI’s ChatGPT, announced it is facing a significant cyber attack, prompting the company to halt new user registrations temporarily.
It takes two: The 2025 Sophos Active Adversary Report
The dawn of our fifth year deepens our understanding of the enemies at the gate, and some tensions inside it; plus, an anniversary gift from us to you
Explainer: What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector?
Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch of its latest AI models, which it says are on a par or better than industry-leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, is threatening to upset the technology world order.
Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters
A team of researchers at Epoch AI, a non-profit research institute, are using open-source intelligence to map the growth of America’s datacenters. The team pores over satellite imagery, building permits, and other local legal documents to build a map of the massive computer filled buildings springing up across the United States. They take that data…
Nuclei flaw lets malicious templates bypass signature verification
A now-fixed vulnerability in the open-source vulnerability scanner Nuclei could potentially allow attackers to bypass signature verification while sneaking malicious code into templates that execute on local systems. […]
‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning
This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation. Conservative parents’ advocacy groups have been experimenting with using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries. Even though LLMs are notoriously error-prone, and the books in question aren’t pornographic, these groups…