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Italian Data Protection Watchdog Accuses ChatGPT of Privacy Violations
2024-01-30 10:20

Italy's data protection authority (DPA) has notified ChatGPT-maker OpenAI of supposedly violating privacy laws in the region. "The available evidence pointed to the existence of breaches of the...

ESET Threat Report: ChatGPT Name Abuses, Lumma Stealer Malware Increases, Android SpinOk SDK Spyware’s Prevalence
2023-12-22 22:47

Cybersecurity company ESET released its H2 2023 threat report, and we're highlighting three particularly interesting topics in it: the abuse of the ChatGPT name by cybercriminals, the rise of the Lumma Stealer malware and the Android SpinOk SDK spyware. In the second half of 2023, ESET has blocked 650,000 attempts to access malicious domains whose names include "Chatgpt" or similar string in an apparent reference to the ChatGPT chatbot.

OpenAI rolls out imperfect fix for ChatGPT data leak flaw
2023-12-21 16:44

OpenAI has mitigated a data exfiltration bug in ChatGPT that could potentially leak conversation details to an external URL. According to the researcher who discovered the flaw, the mitigation isn't perfect, so attackers can still exploit it under certain conditions. Security researcher Johann Rehberger discovered a technique to exfiltrate data from ChatGPT and reported it to OpenAI in April 2023.

ChatGPT’s popularity triggers global generative AI investment surge
2023-11-17 04:30

While AI is not a new technology - companies have been investing heavily in predictive and interpretive AI for years - the announcement of the GPT-3.5 series from OpenAI in late 2022 captured the world's attention and triggered a surge of investment in generative AI, according to IDC. As a result, IDC expects worldwide spending on AI solutions will grow to more than $500 billion in 2027. In turn, most organizations will experience a notable shift in the weight of technology investments toward AI implementation and adoption of AI-enhanced products/services.

OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages
2023-11-09 08:18

OpenAI has been addressing "Periodic outages" due to DDoS attacks targeting its API and ChatGPT services within the last 24 hours. While the company didn't immediately provide any details on the root cause of these incidents, OpenAI confirmed earlier today that they're linked to ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks.

ChatGPT back online after major OpenAI systems outage
2023-11-08 14:43

Update November 8, 11:05 EST: OpenAI says impacted services are back online. OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot is down because of a major ongoing outage that also took down the company's Application Programming Interface.

ChatGPT down after major outage impacting OpenAI systems
2023-11-08 14:43

OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot is down because of a major ongoing outage that also took down the company's Application Programming Interface. Today's issues follow another partial outage on Tuesday that also impacted the company's API and ChatGPT, both hit by periodic outages for several hours.

OpenAI confirms it's not killing off ChatGPT plugins for now
2023-11-07 15:12

During its inaugural developer conference, OpenAI unveiled GPTs, short for Generative Pre-trained Transformers. In a recent blog post, OpenAI shed light on the ability to extend the built-in features of GPTs by incorporating custom actions through API integration.

How to Guard Your Data from Exposure in ChatGPT
2023-10-12 10:33

ChatGPT has transformed the way businesses generate textual content, which can potentially result in a quantum leap in productivity. However, Generative AI innovation also introduces a new...

Protecting against FraudGPT, ChatGPT’s evil twin
2023-10-02 04:00

FraudGPT is the evil counterpart to ChatGPT. Criminals use it to target businesses with phishing emails and scams with speed and accuracy like never before. The AI can be prompted to create the most realistic phishing emails, perfected down to a business' tone and artistic style, and encourage victims to hand over sensitive information, such as bank information or corporate login details.