Published on: 2025-04-30 19:00:27
Sam Altman's grand vision of democratizing artificial intelligence seems, per a new study, to include an ugly asterisk: it's monetized, at least in part, by spambots filling the web with AI-generated garbage. According to the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, search engine optimization (SEO) scammers operated undetected for months using what company's experts are calling "AkiraBot," a "modular and sophisticated" tool that was able to bypass CAPTCHAs and other spam detection filters with ease. As
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 15:23:42
If not for the open casket, Ayn Rand’s funeral might have been confused for a party. On March 8, 1982, hundreds of admirers lined up outside a funeral home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to pay their respects to the author and philosopher, basking in their shared love for the queen of selfishness. Inside, a phonograph played jovial turn-of-the-century tunes—Rand called it her “tiddlywink music”—at high volume. Colorful bouquets lined the room, including a six-foot-tall floral arrangement in the
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In context: Akira is a dangerous, multiplatform ransomware threat that has been active since 2023. Available as a ransomware-as-a-service product to script kiddies and cybercriminals, the malware has targeted over 250 organizations and has earned up to $42 million for its unknown developers. Yohanes Nugroho, an Indonesian programmer who works on personal coding projects in his spare time, developed a "decryptor" for the Akira ransomware. The tool employs a novel approach to solve a complex math
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 20:31:35
The Akira ransomware gang was spotted using an unsecured webcam to launch encryption attacks on a victim's network, effectively circumventing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), which was blocking the encryptor in Windows. Cybersecurity firm S-RM team discovered the unusual attack method during a recent incident response at one of their clients. Notably, Akira only pivoted to the webcam after attempting to deploy encryptors on Windows, which were blocked by the victim's EDR solution. Akira
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The Toronto Zoo, the largest zoo in Canada, has provided more information about the data stolen during a ransomware attack in January 2024. In a final notification regarding the cyberattack, the Toronto Zoo said the resulting data breach impacts varying combinations of personal and financial information belonging to employees, former employees, volunteers, and donors. The exposed information includes transaction data such as impacted individuals' names, street address information, phone number
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