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International

Israel: hackers leak thousands of personal details as Netanyahu’s Facebook account targeted

The Facebook account of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was hacked into on Wednesday evening, and the identities and names of tens of thousands of Israelis were leaked, following another cyber-attack targeting the country’s Atid group. The cyber-attack came as Israel celebrates its Independence Day. The hackers broadcast audio content …

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OpenAI: ChatGPT Back in Italy After Meeting Watchdog Demands

ChatGPT’s maker said Friday that the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the demands of regulators who temporarily blocked it over privacy concerns. OpenAI said it fulfilled a raft of conditions that the Italian data protection authority wanted satisfied by an April 30 deadline to have …

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EU draft bill sets copyright requirements for AI models like ChatGPT

A new draft of European Union legislation proposes that developers of artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT must disclose copyrighted material used in building their systems. Members of the European Parliament have reached a preliminary agreement on the EU’s AI Act, with new provisions added that will require generative AI …

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Google Obtains Court Order to Disrupt CryptBot Distribution

Google this week announced that it has obtained a court order that helped it disrupt the CryptBot information stealer’s distribution. Initially designed to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information such as credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more, CryptBot was also seen distributing banking trojans. Over the past year alone, the malware infected …

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Cisco Launches Advanced Threat Detection XDR Platform

In the recent hybrid, multi-vendor, multi-threat world, Cisco Extended Detection and Response (XDR) streamlines security operations with unrivaled visibility across the network and endpoint. To accomplish its goal of the Cisco Security Cloud, a unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform, Cisco recently presented the most recent development. Organizations should defend the …

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Hackers Using YouTube as a Malware Distribution Platform Via Hacked YT Channel

Morphisec Threat Labs researchers have recently exposed a sneaky loader called “in2al5d p3in4er” (Invalid Printer) that delivers Aurora information stealer malware through YouTube videos. Using an advanced anti-VM technique, the in2al5d p3in4er loader, built with Embarcadero RAD Studio, specifically targets endpoint workstations. Late in 2022, Aurora appeared on the threat …

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