It’s a company’s worst nightmare. Critical systems or customer data are suddenly inaccessible, held hostage by ransomware demanding cryptocurrency payments to unlock the paralyzed infrastructure, Business Report writes in its latest cover package. Seems unlikely? Think again, cybersecurity experts say. Profit-driven cybercriminals as well as nation-state adversaries increasingly possess the capability to shut down supply…
Victimizing software developers via fake companies, jobs, and code repositories to steal cryptocurrency Categories: Threat Research Tags: NICKEL ALLEY, Contagious Interview, North Korea, clickfix
We start this week with Emanuel’s great investigation into Chinese AI video models, and how they have far fewer safeguards than their American counterparts. A content warning for that section due to what the users are making. After the break, Joseph explains how police are using AI to summarize evidence seized from mobile phones. In…
After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia. “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies,” Wikipedia’s new…
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Tim Cook, Meta layoffs, and a very bad ad. EMANUEL: This week we experimented with the podcast format a little bit. We had just finished recording our…
Last week Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid contracting giant Palantir tens of millions of dollars to make modifications to a powerful ICE database and search tool to allow “complete target analysis of known populations” and to update the tool’s targeting and enforcement priorities, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media. The records show…
As you scroll around the web, how often to you think about the physical infrastructure—the miles of cables, acres of land—that makes up the internet? This is where real power lies, and there are ways to imagine it differently, as serving the people who use these utilities instead of big tech execs. This week, I’m…
Google’s Ad Transparency tool no longer shows political online advertisements that ran on its platforms, in the past or present, from any countries in the European Union, making seven years of data from 27 different countries inaccessible. Liz Carolan, who publishes Irish technology and politics newsletter The Briefing, spotted the change on September 28. Carolan…
Categories: Sophos Insights Tags: Sophos AI, Gen AI, Year in Review
A recent study polling security experts reveals they are more interested in utilizing generative AI to challenge advancing technologies on the hacker side.
