Why AI-based voice cloning is the next frontier in social-engineering attacks. By now, you’ve likely heard of fraudulent calls that use AI to clone the voices of people the call recipient knows. Often, the result is what sounds like a grandchild, CEO, or work colleague you’ve known for years…
Stopping people from falling for phishing attacks isn’t working. So what are organizations to do? Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download profile information belonging to users of a third-party customer relationship management system. “Our investigation…
The allegations are the latest to accuse Perplexity of improper web crawling. AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and…
A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb. Silicon Valley’s AI talent war just reached a compensation milestone that makes even the most legendary scientific achievements of the past look financially modest. When Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke $250…
End goal is the installation of a malicious TLS root certificate for use in intel gathering. Russian-state hackers are targeting foreign embassies in Moscow with custom malware that gets installed using adversary-in-the-middle attacks that operate at the ISP level, Microsoft warned Thursday. The campaign has been ongoing since last…
Sophisticated group also used novel means to disguise their custom malware. Hackers planted a Raspberry Pi equipped with a 4G modem in the network of an unnamed bank in an attempt to siphon money out of the financial institution’s ATM system, researchers reported Wednesday. The researchers with security firm…
AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement. On Tuesday, The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have used AI to search for information, while only 37 percent of all Americans have used AI…
Beware of coding agents that can access your command window. Researchers needed less than 48 hours with Google’s new Gemini CLI coding agent to devise an exploit that made a default configuration of the tool surreptitiously exfiltrate sensitive data to an attacker-controlled server. Gemini CLI is a free, open-source…
Proposed datacenter would demand 5x Wyoming’s current power use at full deployment. On Monday, Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne, Wyoming, announced plans for an AI data center that would consume more electricity than all homes in the state combined, according to the Associated Press. The facility, a joint venture…
