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Fake Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games tickets flooding the internet
When on the hunt for tickets to the summer games, be very careful – crooks will almost certainly try to scam you.
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Disgruntled ex-employee jailed for wiping 180 servers at his former company
After being laid off for poor performance, an ex-employee of the IT giant NCS Group decided to seek revenge by deleting the company’s data. While the ex-staffer succeeded, the ordeal has backfired with a lengthy prison sentence.
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YouTube observed testing ad injection that bypasses adblockers
Some users are reporting that their adblockers are no longer working on YouTube, as the platform is experimenting with server-side ad injections. And there is no skip button for them.
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Student crafts elaborate AI scheme to pass university exam, gets arrested
A Turkish student has been arrested for creating an elaborate contraption linked to artificial intelligence (AI) software used to help them cheat during a university entrance exam.
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Cleveland cyberattack forces city officials to cut network access
Hackers have breached the City of Cleveland, Ohio, forcing officials to cut off access to government IT systems to try and contain the damage.
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Ukraine police confirm arrest of man aiding Conti and LockBit
Ukrainian police have identified and arrested a 28-year-old man from Kyiv who’s suspected of aiding notorious Russian ransomware groups Conti and LockBit to carry out cyberattacks.
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Microsoft to fight back against ransomware attacks on rural hospitals
Microsoft's new cybersecurity program will provide cybersecurity assistance to hospitals serving more than 60 million people living in rural America.
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Tech company known for repetitive ads on YouTube purchases BeReal for $500M
Voodoo, a mobile applications and games publisher known for its repetitive advertisements on YouTube and Instagram, has acquired the social media app BeReal for $500 million.
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Musk drops lawsuit accusing OpenAI of selling out humanity for profit
Elon Musk moves to dismiss his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman that accused the company of straying from its original non-profit business model.
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Crooks abuse encrypted chat to sell fake euros, get busted by international police forces
Europol and various European law enforcement agencies have thwarted a sophisticated counterfeit banknote ring in Italy, recovering over €100,000 in fake banknotes and €10,000 in cryptocurrencies.
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AI systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of juice, study shows
There’s a reason why AI companies are rushing to train their models on publicly available data as quickly as possible. That’s because these resources could soon be exhausted, spelling disaster for tech firms.
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TikTok rival releases yet another Sora-like AI video maker
While OpenAI is still hesitant to launch Sora fully, Chinese tech giants have already released their second text-to-video model in the past couple of months.
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Android app developer fills privacy policy with Google’s sins, gets approved
Google Play Store requires a privacy policy even for apps that don’t collect any data. Jamie Zawinski, a developer of the XScreenSaver application, didn’t mince words when complying with the guidelines, filling the policy with criticism of Google.
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“British Airways” and other scam accounts siphoning personal information from unsuspecting travelers
Scammers are posing as real airline customer representatives on X (formerly known as Twitter) to siphon personal information from disgruntled travelers.
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Ticketmaster attacker vanishes, pundits speculating arrest
The Ticketmaster perpetrators have disappeared with their accounts being deleted, which could suggest a potential arrest.
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Gang of AI bots can hack websites with a 53% success rate, researchers show
Teams of bots powered by GPT-4 can scan websites for zero-day vulnerabilities and attack them with a success rate of 53%, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have found.
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QuoteWizard, another Snowflake customer, confirms breach – media
The number of organizations whose Snowflake accounts were breached continues to mount, with loan comparison site LendingTree confirming that its subsidiary QuoteWizard had its data stolen.
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Adobe enrages then tries to soothe users with new terms update
Adobe Creative Cloud users set the internet alight over the weekend, thinking that the company’s new terms mean that it’s now claiming rights over their work. However, Adobe has since provided a detailed explanation.
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Personal data of 26M LAUSD students put up for sale on hacker forum
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) – hacked by the Vice Society ransomware group in 2022 – is suffering at the hands of cybercriminals once again after millions of students’ personal information was found up for grabs on a popular hacker forum.
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NewsBreak app under scrutiny for fake AI stories, ties to China
NewsBreak, one of the most downloaded news aggregation apps in America, is under scrutiny by US lawmakers after new information reveals its Chinese origins and that it has used AI tools to produce dozens of fake news stories.
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