Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Over the past year, a flurry of destructive wiper malware from no fewer than nine families has appeared. In the past week, researchers cataloged at least two more, both exhibiting advanced Read more…
Enlarge / An unmarked AI-generated image of China’s flag, which will be illegal in China after January 10, 2023. (credit: Ars Technica) China’s Cyberspace Administration recently issued regulations prohibiting the creation of AI-generated media without Read more…
Enlarge / This is John. He doesn’t exist. But AI can easily put a photo of him in any situation we want. And the same process can apply to real people with just a few Read more…
Enlarge / APT37, a group believed to be backed by the North Korean government, has found success exploiting the bits of Internet Explorer still present in various Windows-based apps. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Read more…
Enlarge / An AI-generated watercolor illustration, now eligible for inclusion in Adobe Stock. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Monday, Adobe announced that its stock photography service, Adobe Stock, would begin allowing artists to Read more…
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and imagine dialing into Read more…
Enlarge / If you’re going to come at port 443, you best not miss (or forget to put a space between URL and port). (credit: Getty Images) KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet that could also be Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Peach_istock via Getty Images) It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen Read more…
Enlarge / Two examples of Stable Diffusion-generated artwork provided by Apple. (credit: Apple) On Wednesday, Apple released optimizations that allow the Stable Diffusion AI image generator to run on Apple Silicon using Core ML, Apple’s Read more…
Enlarge Mayors’ offices and courts in Russia are under attack by never-before-seen malware that poses as ransomware but is actually a wiper that permanently destroys data on an infected system, according to security company Kaspersky Read more…