- Threat Predictions for 2024: Chained AI and CaaS Operations Give Attackers More “Easy” Buttons Than Ever
November 9, 2023
With the growth of Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) operations and the advent of generative AI, threat actors have more “easy” buttons at their fingertips to assist with carrying out attacks than ever before. By relying on the growing capabilities in their respective toolboxes, adversaries will increase the sophistication of their activities. They’ll launch more targeted and stealthier hacks ...
- OpenAI Blames ChatGPT’s Intermittent Outages On ‘Abnormal Traffic’ That Suggests Potential Cyber Attack
November 9, 2023
ChatGPT continued to face intermittent outages late Wednesday, which the platform’s maker OpenAI blamed on a potential cyberattack, hours after the AI chatbot platform recovered from a wide outage that the company initially attributed to a surge in interest for its new features. Early on Thursday, OpenAI’s service status page displayed a notification saying both ChatGPT ...
- Tech firms to allow vetting of AI tools
November 3, 2023
The most advanced technology companies will allow governments to vet their artificial intelligence tools for the first time, Rishi Sunak has announced, as Elon Musk warned the technology could eventually replace all human jobs. Companies including Meta, Google DeepMind and OpenAI have agreed to allow regulators to test their latest AI products before releasing them ...
- Increasing transparency in AI security
October 26, 2023
New AI innovations and applications are reaching consumers and businesses on an almost-daily basis. Building AI securely is a paramount concern, and we believe that Google’s Secure AI Framework (SAIF) can help chart a path for creating AI applications that users can trust. Today, we’re highlighting two new ways to make information about AI supply ...
- Hackers trying to corrupt AI, raising level of ransomware threat
October 17, 2023
Cyber criminals are actively trying to corrupt generative artificial intelligence (AI), which may then put the ability to create ransomware in the hands of individuals. The looming threat is what keeps Mr Willis Lim, the director of the National Cyber Threat Analysis Centre at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), up at night. Generative ...
- China’s cyber security association sets up special committee to bolster AI research
October 15, 2023
China has set up a professional committee focusing on governance of artificial intelligence (AI) security in a bid to build a sustained foundation for the sound development of the emerging industry, according to the country’s cyber security association. On Thursday, an inaugural meeting was held in Beijing for the AI security governance committee under the ...
- Analysis of Generative AI Trends and ChatGPT Usage
September 26, 2023
The release of ChatGPT underscores the potential of artificial intelligence to revolutionize the daily operations of organizations. This paradigm shift is compelling businesses to reevaluate their conventional approaches and embrace the transformative capabilities offered by AI. Among the noteworthy facets of AI’s evolution, Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a dominant force, reshaping user interactions ...
- China to impose severe punishment on crimes of cyberbullying, defamation offenses, fabricating sexual topics
September 25, 2023
China on Monday released guidelines to severely punish cyberspace violations that target minors, involve paid posters, fabricate “sexual” topics and use artificial intelligence to disseminate illegal information. The guidelines on punishing crimes of cyberspace violence in accordance with laws were jointly issued by China’s Supreme People’s Court, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate and China’s Ministry of Public ...
- Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of internal sensitive data
September 18, 2023
Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords, while publishing a storage bucket of open source training data on GitHub. In research shared with TechCrunch, cloud security startup Wiz said it discovered a GitHub repository belonging to Microsoft’s AI research division as part of its ongoing work ...
- Ukraine war: Cyber-teams fight a high-tech war on front lines
September 6, 2023
Ukraine cyber-operators are being deployed on the front lines of the war, duelling close-up with their Russian counterparts in a new kind of high-tech battle. “We have people who are directly involved in combat,” says Illia Vitiuk, the head of the Ukrainian Security Service’s (SBU) cyber department. Speaking inside the heavily protected SBU headquarters, he explains ...
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