Monthly Archives: March 2024

New Python-Based Snake Info Stealer Spreading Through Facebook Messages

Facebook messages are being used by threat actors to a Python-based information stealer dubbed Snake that’s designed to capture credentials and other sensitive data. “The credentials harvested from unsuspecting users are transmitted to different platforms such as Discord, GitHub, and Telegram,” Cybereason researcher Kotaro Ogino said in a technical report. Details about the campaign&

After months of hiatus, Microsoft has relaunched its Bing Deep Search

Deep Search feature utilizes Microsoft’s powerful GPT-4 language model, which will provide more insightful and comprehensive search results to users compared to what made up information GPT-3.5 reveals.  Deep Search acts as an extra layer on top of Bing’s existing search engine. It uses the vast search index and ranking system while incorporating GPT-4. We […]

Watch Out for Spoofed Zoom, Skype, Google Meet Sites Delivering Malware

Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023. “The threat actor is distributing Remote Access Trojans (RATs) including SpyNote RAT for Android platforms, and NjRAT and DCRat for Windows

Edge’s Copilot now gives options to select the sources from – all web or the present web page

Does it ever happen to you that you want to seek an answer, particularly from a particular web page, and you open up Copilot on Edge and enter the question only to find out that Copilot gave you the answers from some unheard source? Well, it looks like Microsoft understood this frustration and has worked […]

OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk: Hashtag Trending for March 7, 2024

OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk, 90 percent of statistics published on the Internet aren’t true, 30,000 Fidelity customers in the US have their data stolen and those hospital alarms sounds may not save lives – and they are responsible for a lot of deaths. All this and more on the “lies, damned liars and […]

IT World Canada fights for survival

Facing an unprecedented crisis, IT World Canada, a beacon of technology journalism, is on the brink of closure. This poses a critical question: Without IT World Canada, who will narrate Canada’s tech story? After decades of serving the Canadian tech industry, IT World Canada needs help to survive. As of midnight tonight, the company is […]

Sandboxing Python with Win32 App Isolation 

Sandboxing Python can be very useful for developers but has been challenging due to the flexibility of CPython implementation. It is particularly useful in many scenarios to have sandboxed Python.  For example, on any website that needs to execute arbitrary code from users, like coding practice sites or online interpreters. It could also be useful […]