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It turns out that Rabbit R1 is just an Android app
The viral pocket companion Rabbit R1 has been suffering under the weight of bad reviews lately. As if this weren’t enough, users have just found out it can be run on a simple Android phone – just like any other app.
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Continuum reveals hack exposed 377K Consensus Medical Group patients
Continuum, a health management and patient care coordination services provider, has disclosed that attackers accessed personal details and medical data.
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Hacker jailed over $700M REvil ransomware scheme
A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to almost 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million for his role in 2,500 ransomware attacks and demanding $700 million in payments.
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Cannes hospital responds to LockBit ransom attack demands
The LockBit ransomware group claimed responsibility for the April 16th attack on the Hôpital de Cannes in southern France, already offering up an alleged 61GB of the stolen data to the highest bidder on the dark web.
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Dropbox reports data breach, user info compromised
Dropbox, the popular cloud-based file storage and sharing service, on Wednesday filed a breach disclosure with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stating that Dropbox Sign user info has been compromised.
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Majority in US believe China uses TikTok to influence Americans
More than half of Americans believe that the Chinese government uses TikTok to shape public opinion, according to the results of a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday.
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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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