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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.

After failing at privacy, again, Google is working to keep Bard chats out of Search
2023-09-28 07:32

The URLs needed to share chat histories have been indexed. Of course Google's Bard chatbot is currently being re-educated to better understand privacy.…

Signal adopts new alphabet jumble to protect chats from quantum computers
2023-09-20 20:28

Signal has adopted a new key agreement protocol in an effort to keep encrypted Signal chat messages protected from any future quantum computers. Quantum computers - which every decade experts believe may be able to crack today's encryption schemes within the next decade or two - aren't particularly useful at the moment.

Bing Chat AI is down, affecting Windows Copilot and more
2023-09-15 11:36

Bing Chat, the famous ChatGPT-powered chatbot that allows users to converse with various personalities and topics has connectivity issues worldwide. BleepingComputer can confirm Bing Chat is not working in Asia and United States.

UK admits 'spy clause' can't be used for scanning encrypted chat – it's not 'feasible'
2023-09-07 10:09

Comment Sanity appears to have prevailed in the debate over the UK Online Safety bill after the government agreed to ditch proposals - at least for the time being - to legislate the scanning of encrypted messages. In response to questions regarding the technical feasibility of scanning messages and the assessments that Ofcom must make, Lord Parkinson, a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport minister, said: "If the appropriate technology does not exist that meets these requirements, then Ofcom will not be able to use Clause 122 to require its use."