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The Tokyo District Court sentenced 25-year-old Ryuki Hayashi for creating a malicious computer virus using generative artificial intelligence. The court found him guilty of making illegal digital tools and sentenced him to three years in prison with a four-year suspended sentence. In Japan, a...

How will government regulation of AI help the U.S. keep up with the rest of the world? More than 60 companies, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions have asked the U.S. Congress to pass legislation to create the AI Safety Institute at NIST. The main message of the appeal...

Vulnhuntr detects exploits faster than hackers create them. The new Vulnhuntr tool makes a breakthrough in finding vulnerabilities in open source projects. Developed by Protect AI, it uses the power of large language models (LLMs) to detect complex multi-stage vulnerabilities, including remote...

AI will create the perfect fake personas for intelligence and espionage. The U.S. Department of Defense is considering using generative AI to create fake online personas. According to The Intercept, the request filed by the Special Operations Command (JSOC) expressed interest in developing...

Computational graphs hide threats you didn't even know existed. Recently, a team of HiddenLayer researchers presented a technique called "ShadowLogic" that allows you to inject hidden bookmarks into machine learning models. This method, which does not require adding code, relies on manipulating...

Thousands of AI tools with sensitive data have become publicly available. Thousands of machine learning tools, including those developed by big tech companies, have been made available online, allowing anyone to interact with them and potentially expose sensitive data. A security researcher...

New Android features to protect user data. Google has begun rolling out a new set of features aimed at strengthening the security of user data in the event of device theft. According to information published on Reddit by Mishaal Rahman, his Xiaomi 14T Pro has two new features: "Lock when theft...

15 billion photos - the scale of covert surveillance in the United States. In December 2023, a car with cameras drove down a small residential street in Alabama and took several pictures of everything on the side of the road. One of them has a poster in support of Trump, installed outside the...

Criminals are actively mastering new techniques, creating non-standard malware. Researchers from Recorded Future have discovered that the threat actors behind the Rhadamanthys malware have added new artificial intelligence (AI)-based capabilities. A new feature called Seed Phrase Image...

Data security remains a weak point for companies when interacting with AI. According to a recent study by CybSafe and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCA), 38% of employees in organizations use artificial intelligence tools to share sensitive work information without the permission of...

Will the director of a company be able to go to jail for the bad behavior of a digital assistant? The U.S. Department of Justice has expanded requirements for corporate compliance services by adding controls on the use of artificial intelligence. Now, companies, in addition to...

Hackers are using AI to create malicious code, changing the paradigm of cybersecurity. In June, experts from HP discovered a phishing campaign aimed at users in France, which used AI to create malicious code. The main goal of the attack was to spread the AsyncRAT. The researchers reported their...

Is the YOLO model the end of the "I'm not a robot" era? A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), led by Andreas Plesner, managed to create an AI model that solves CAPTCHA puzzles with incredible accuracy - the very tests that websites use to...

Perhaps language models need to get a little smarter... Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Pennsylvania State University conducted an interesting experiment to evaluate the potential for AI to be used in home security cameras. They decided to find out whether...

Over the next five years, state prosecutors and tax authorities will begin to use artificial intelligence to analyze blockchain and solve crimes. This opinion was expressed by the CEO of the analytical firm Chainalysis, Michael Gronager, writes Cointelegraph. "In a few years, cryptocurrencies...

How the new algorithm will protect platform users from trolls and fakes. European scientists have created a machine learning algorithm that is able to predict the malicious behavior of users on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The study, published July 12 in the journal IEEE, shows...

To fool a chatbot, you need to think like a chatbot. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, has proven vulnerable to sophisticated social engineering techniques. The artist and hacker, known under the pseudonym Amadon, managed to bypass the built-in restrictions of the chatbot and obtain detailed...

The new technology predicts events with an accuracy of 82.8%. A team of South Korean researchers has developed a new technology capable of detecting and predicting criminal activities using artificial intelligence (AI) and data from security cameras in real time. The new system significantly...

The billionaire predicts an era of total surveillance. Billionaire and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison shared his vision of a future in which artificial intelligence (AI) will become an integral part of total surveillance. In a meeting with Oracle's financial analysts, Ellison said that AI will...

AI content creators face a difficult choice – labeling or a fine. The Internet Affairs Administration of China (CAC) has submitted a draft of new rules aimed at regulating the labeling of AI content. The document was developed in order to protect national security, public interests, as well as...