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French government recommends against using foreign chat apps
2023-12-01 18:12

Prime Minister of France Élisabeth Borne signed a circular last week requesting all government employees to uninstall foreign communication apps such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram by December 8, 2023, in favor of a French messaging app named 'Olvid. BleepingComputer discussed the development with French journalists, who clarified that this isn't a ban on using foreign messaging apps but rather a recommendation to switch to locally developed software.

WhatsApp's New Secret Code Feature Lets Users Protect Private Chats with Password
2023-12-01 10:04

Meta-owned WhatsApp has launched a new Secret Code feature to help users protect sensitive conversations with a custom password on the messaging platform. The feature has been described as an...

WhatsApp's new Secret Code feature hides your locked chats
2023-11-30 21:32

WhatsApp has introduced a new Secret Code feature that allows users to hide their locked chats by setting a custom password. After it reaches your device, you can set a code specifically for securing locked chats independent from the device unlock code.

What to do with a cloud intrusion toolkit in 2023? Slap a chat assistant on it, duh
2023-11-09 06:56

Infosec bods have detailed an underground cybersecurity tool dubbed Predator AI that not only can be used to compromise poorly secured cloud services and web apps, but has an optional chat-bot assistant that only kinda works. Predator AI is apparently programmed to be to able to exploit 30 kinds of misconfigured or poorly setup web-based services and technologies, ranging from Amazon Web Services' Simple Email Service, Twilio, and WordPress to OpenCart, Magento, OneSignal, Stripe, and PayPal, SentinelLabs boffin Alex Delamotte explained on Wednesday.

Offensive and Defensive AI: Let’s Chat(GPT) About It
2023-11-07 10:21

ChatGPT: Productivity tool, great for writing poems, and a security risk?! In this article, we show how threat actors can exploit ChatGPT, but also how defenders can use it for leveling up their game. Finding Vulnerabilities - Attackers can prompt ChatGPT about potential vulnerabilities in websites, systems, APIs, and other network components.

Malicious Ads in Bing Chat
2023-10-04 11:08

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Microsoft Bing Chat pushes malware via bad ads
2023-09-29 20:54

Microsoft introduced its Bing Chat AI search assistant in February and a month later began serving ads alongside it to help cover costs. Security outfit Malwarebytes said on Thursday it has identified malvertising - harmful ads - distributed via Bing Chat conversations.

Malicious ads creep into Bing Chat responses
2023-09-29 13:39

Users of Bing Chat, the GPT-4-powered search engine Microsoft introduced earlier this year, are being targeted with ads leading to malware. Malwarebytes researchers tested Bing Chat with a simple query: "Download advanced IP scanner".

Microsoft's AI-Powered Bing Chat Ads May Lead Users to Malware-Distributing Sites
2023-09-29 09:13

Malicious ads served inside Microsoft Bing's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot are being used to distribute malware when searching for popular tools. The findings come from Malwarebytes, which...

Bing Chat responses infiltrated by ads pushing malware
2023-09-28 18:35

Malicious advertisements are now being injected into Microsoft's AI-powered Bing Chat responses, promoting fake download sites that distribute malware. In March, Microsoft began injecting ads into Bing Chat conversations to generate revenue from this new platform.