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YouTube warns of AI-generated video of its CEO used in phishing attacks
YouTube warns that scammers are using an AI-generated video featuring the company’s CEO in phishing attacks to steal creators’ credentials. The attackers are sharing it as a private video with targeted users via emails claiming YouTube is changing its monetization policy. “We’re aware that phishers have been sharing private videos to send false videos, including […]
Google expands Android AI scam detection to more Pixel devices
Google has announced an increased rollout of new AI-powered scam detection features on Android to help protect users from increasingly sophisticated phone and text social engineering scams. The tech giant says these features come in response to AI-assisted scam campaigns that, according to statistics from the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, have defrauded people of over $1 […]
Nearly 12,000 API keys and passwords found in AI training dataset
Close to 12,000 valid secrets that include API keys and passwords have been found in the Common Crawl dataset used for training multiple artificial intelligence models. The Common Crawl non-profit organization maintains a massive open-source repository of petabytes of web data collected since 2008 and is free for anyone to use. Because of the large dataset, many […]
Police arrests suspects tied to AI-generated CSAM distribution ring
Law enforcement agencies from 19 countries have arrested 25 suspects linked to a criminal ring that was distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) generated using artificial intelligence (AI). Operation Cumberland, coordinated by Danish law enforcement and supported by Europol, resulted in the seizure of 173 electronic devices and the identification of 273 suspected members tied […]
Microsoft names cybercriminals behind AI deepfake network
Microsoft has named multiple threat actors part of a cybercrime gang accused of developing malicious tools capable of bypassing generative AI guardrails to generate celebrity deepfakes and other illicit content. An updated complaint identifies the individuals as Arian Yadegarnia from Iran (aka ‘Fiz’), Alan Krysiak of the United Kingdom (aka ‘Drago’), Ricky Yuen from Hong Kong, China […]
OpenAI’s GPT 4.5 spotted in Android beta, launch imminent
OpenAI’s newest model, GPT-4.5, is coming sooner than we expected. A new reference has been spotted on ChatGPT’s Android app that points to a model called “GPT-4.5 research preview.” At the moment, OpenAI offers several models, including GPT-4o, GPT-4o with scheduled tasks, o1, o3-mini, and o3-mini-high. This can be confusing due to the variety of […]
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet is here and results are insane
Anthropic has started rolling out Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the company’s most advanced model and the first hybrid reasoning model it has shipped. Early tests show that Claude 3.7 Sonnet is outperforming rivals, including OpenAI‘s ChatGPT models and China’s DeepSeek. In a blog post, Anthropic noted that its newest model combines fast, straightforward answers with the ability […]
OpenAI bans ChatGPT accounts used by North Korean hackers
OpenAI says it blocked several North Korean hacking groups from using its ChatGPT platform to research future targets and find ways to hack into their networks. “We banned accounts demonstrating activity potentially associated with publicly reported Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)-affiliated threat actors,” the company said in its February 2025 threat intelligence report. “Some of these […]
Google Chrome’s AI-powered security feature rolls out to everyone
Google Chrome has updated the existing “Enhanced protection” feature with AI to offer “real-time” protection against dangerous websites, downloads and extensions. As spotted by Leo on X, the update has been rolled out to Chrome’s stable channel on all platforms after three months of testing in Canary. Enhanced protection, which is part of the Safe browsing feature, isn’t […]
Microsoft raises rewards for Copilot AI bug bounty program
Microsoft announced over the weekend that it has expanded its Microsoft Copilot (AI) bug bounty program and increased payouts for moderate severity vulnerabilities. To further secure its Copilot consumer products against attacks, Redmond added a broader range of Copilot consumer products and services to the scope of the program, including Copilot for Telegram, Copilot for […]