Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Microsoft researchers have discovered a hybrid Windows-Linux botnet that uses a highly efficient technique to take down Minecraft servers and performs distributed denial-of-service attacks on other platforms. Dubbed Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Sports-focused streaming-video service FuboTV said a “criminal cyber attack” was responsible for a prolonged outage that prevented subscribers from viewing most of Wednesday’s World Cup semifinal between France and Morocco. “The Read more…
Enlarge / A screenshot of the “Trending” page on ArtStation from December 14, 2022. It shows anti-AI protest images added by artists across the site. (credit: ArtStation) On Tuesday, members of the online community ArtStation Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged six people for allegedly operating websites that launched millions of powerful distributed denial of service attacks on a wide array of victims on behalf of millions Read more…
Enlarge / Ghostwriter understands what you type and can automatically write responses using OpenAI’s GPT-3. (credit: Arvind Sanjeev / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, a designer and engineer named Arvind Sanjeev revealed his process for creating Read more…
Enlarge / A selection of male and female “Magic Avatars” generated by the Lensa AI app, including a beard cannot be contained. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Over the past week, the smartphone app Read more…
Enlarge / iPhones running iOS 15. (credit: Apple) As part of the barrage of operating system updates released earlier today, Apple published new iOS and iPadOS 15.7.2 updates that bring most of the iOS 16.2 Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has once again been caught allowing its legitimate digital certificates to sign malware in the wild, a lapse that allows the malicious files to pass strict security checks designed to Read more…
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…