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AI platforms can be abused for stealthy malware communication
AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot with web browsing and URL-fetching capabilities can be abused to intermediate command-and-control (C2) activity. Researchers at cybersecurity company Check Point discovered that threat actors can use AI services to relay communication between the C2 server and the target machine. Attackers can exploit this mechanism to deliver commands and retrieve […]
Ireland now also investigating X over Grok-made sexual images
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the country’s data protection authority, has opened a formal investigation into X over the use of the platform’s Grok artificial intelligence tool to generate non-consensual sexual images of real people, including children. The DPC, which also serves as the lead European Union privacy regulator for X due to the company’s […]
UK privacy watchdog probes Grok over AI-generated sexual images
The United Kingdom’s data protection authority launched a formal investigation into X and its Irish subsidiary over reports that the Grok AI assistant was used to generate nonconsensual sexual images. This announcement comes after the ICO contacted X and xAI on January 7, seeking urgent information on the measures taken to comply with data protection law following […]
French prosecutors raid X offices, summon Musk over Grok deepfakes
French prosecutors have raided X’s offices in Paris on Tuesday as part of a criminal investigation into the platform’s Grok AI tool, widely used to generate sexually explicit images. The investigation was opened in January 2025 and expanded after complaints about Grok generating illegal content and X being used to share sexual deepfakes and Holocaust-denial […]
EU launches investigation into X over Grok-generated sexual images
The European Commission announced today that it has launched formal proceedings under the Digital Services Act to investigate whether X properly assessed risks before deploying its Grok artificial intelligence tool, following its use to generate sexually explicit images. The commission noted that these potential risks “seem to have materialised,” seeing that the AI-powered tool was […]
xAI teases major Grok upgrade, hints at Grok Code CLI
Elon Musk-backed xAI has been missing in action for a while now, but today, Musk teased a major upgrade for Grok alongside new products. Grok is xAI’s LLM model, and it competes head-to-head with Sam Altman’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. Lately, Grok has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, and Elon Musk […]
Google ads for shared ChatGPT, Grok guides push macOS infostealer malware
A new AMOS infostealer campaign is abusing Google search ads to lure users into Grok and ChatGPT conversations that appear to offer “helpful” instructions but ultimately lead to installing the AMOS info-stealing malware on macOS. The campaign was first spotted by researchers at cybersecurity company Kaspersky yesterday, while Huntress managed security platform published a more detailed report earlier today. […]
xAI’s Grok 4.1 rolls out with improved quality and speed for free
Elon Musk-owned xAI has started rolling out Grok 4.1, which is an upgrade to the existing Grok 4 model. xAI has launched two Grok 4.1 models with some incremental improvements. One of the models is Grok 4.1, and another is Grok 4.1 Thinking. These two models are available for free, but paying customers get fewer limits. […]
Threat actors abuse X’s Grok AI to spread malicious links
Threat actors are using Grok, X’s built-in AI assistant, to bypass link posting restrictions that the platform introduced to reduce malicious advertising. As discovered by Guardio Labs’ researcher Nati Tal, mavertisers often run sketchy video ads containing adult content baits and avoid including a link to the main body to avoid being blocked by X. Instead, […]
xAI is testing Grok 4.20 to take on GPT-5, may launch this month
Elon Musk-owned xAI is testing Grok 4.20, a new model update to Grok 4, which already competes with GPT-5 in some benchmarks, such as ARC-AGI 2. GPT-5 is one of the best models for coding, and it competes with Claude Opus 4.1 head-to-head in some coding challenges. On the other hand, Grok falls a bit […]