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Ukraine appoints AI avatar as spokesperson
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has appointed an AI-generated digital persona, modeled after a local influencer, to provide consular updates to the media.
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US newspapers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training
A group of newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sued Microsoft and OpenAI in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing them of misusing reporters' work to train their generative artificial intelligence systems.
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User beware: choosing the wrong AWS bucket name can lead to a massive bill
A private and empty Amazon S3 bucket (simple storage service) unexpectedly racked up a $1,300 bill in just two days. A cautionary tale by one software developer has revealed that AWS customers are charged for unauthorized failed requests, and some bucket names are cursed.
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Ransom payments surge to staggering $2M on average, a 500% jump from last year
Firms all over the world have been hit hard by ransomware gangs. Not only has the average ransom payment reached $2 million, but it takes another $2.7 million for a victim to fully recover.
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Philadelphia Inquirer struck by cyberattack
Philadelphia’s daily newspaper has informed its readers about a cyberattack that affected more than 25,000 of its readers.
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FCC slaps fines on wireless carriers for illegally selling location data
The largest US wireless carriers, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon, face nearly $200 million in fines from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for illegally selling real-time location information data, which often end going up to “bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors.”
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Google bans 2.3M apps and hundreds of thousands of accounts from its Play Store
Google has found that millions of apps submitted to its platform violate the privacy of users, with some of them developed by threat actors to spread malware.
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UnitedHealth hackers used stolen Citrix credentials, CEO says
The massive hack of UnitedHealth Group’s (UHG) tech subsidiary was the result of attackers using "compromised credentials to remotely access a Change Healthcare Citrix portal,” according to UHG CEO Andrew Witty.
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Killer robots AI weapons conference calls for rapid regulation
Leaders in Vienna on Monday called for renewed efforts to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons systems that could create so-called “killer robots.”
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Belarusian KGB allegedly breached, hackers dox over 8600 agents
Cyber Partisans, a Belarusian group of hacktivists, have claimed that they infiltrated the KGB, the state’s secret service. They shared data on more than 8600 KGB agents and also started to reveal the alleged KGB informants in other countries.
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OpenAI accused of violations as ChatGPT lies about people
An Austrian watchdog has filed a complaint against OpenAI for violating GDPR as ChatGPT provides false information about individuals.
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Financial Times announces partnership with OpenAI
The Financial Times has said it was entering into a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with ChatGPT developer OpenAI.
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ICICI Bank glitch gave access to other clients’ credit cards
Other clients’ credit cards started showing up on ICICI’s mobile banking app due to a technical glitch, forcing the bank to block 17,000 cards.
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Cyber crooks ramp up credential stuffing attacks
The mobile devices and browsers of everyday users are behind the recent spike in credential-stuffing attacks, major security technology provider Okta warns.
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JP Morgan employees access sensitive information they weren’t supposed to see
The American banking giant JP Morgan has suffered a data security incident, revealing the personal and financial information of over 450,000 individuals.
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Avast fined nearly $15M for GDPR violations
Avast, a Czech multinational cybersecurity software company, has been fined for tracking its users’ journey.
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Kaiser health plan reveals data breach impacting millions
Kaiser Permanente, a subsidiary of the healthcare conglomerate Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, has revealed that the information of more than 13 million individuals was exposed in a recent data breach.
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Hackers leak World-Check, sanctions, and crimes database
Hackers have stolen and leaked the LSEG World-Check screening database with over five million records on criminals, risky organizations, and other institutions.
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Time to ditch eight-character passwords – they may no longer be enough in 2024
Advancements in computing power now allow the cracking of any 8-character-long password in a reasonable amount of time, even if it’s hashed. The standard recommendation now is to have a strong password of at least 16 characters.
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ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail
TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer to shut down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the US, four sources said.
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