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Best Weibo Downloader: 5 Tested Tools

Are you looking for the best Weibo downloader to get your favorite videos offline? In this guide, I’ll give you the top five tools for the job and show you how to choose the best one based on specific criteria. Let’s roll in. 1. YT Saver YT Saver Video Downloader is a software that you […]

New Backdoor Targeting European Officials Linked to Indian Diplomatic Events

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed SPIKEDWINE has been observed targeting officials in European countries with Indian diplomatic missions using a new backdoor called WINELOADER. The adversary, according to a report from Zscaler ThreatLabz, used a PDF file in emails that purported to come from the Ambassador of India, inviting diplomatic staff to a wine-tasting

Lazarus Exploits Typos to Sneak PyPI Malware into Dev Systems

The notorious North Korean state-backed hacking group Lazarus uploaded four packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with the goal of infecting developer systems with malware. The packages, now taken down, are pycryptoenv, pycryptoconf, quasarlib, and swapmempool. They have been collectively downloaded 3,269 times, with pycryptoconf accounting for the most

Microsoft investigates reports of disturbing responses from Copilot

Microsoft Corporation is investigating reports concerning its Copilot chatbot generating responses that users have described as bizarre, disturbing, and potentially harmful. According to accounts shared on social media, Copilot allegedly responded inappropriately to specific prompts. One user, claiming to suffer from PTSD, reported receiving a response from Copilot expressing indifference towards their well-being. In another […]

Chinese Hackers Exploiting Ivanti VPN Flaws to Deploy New Malware

At least two different suspected China-linked cyber espionage clusters, tracked as UNC5325 and UNC3886, have been attributed to the exploitation of security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances. UNC5325 abused CVE-2024-21893 to deliver a wide range of new malware called LITTLELAMB.WOOLTEA, PITSTOP, PITDOG, PITJET, and PITHOOK, as well as maintain persistent

3 more news organizations file lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft

Three news organizations, The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet, have filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alleging copyright infringement related to the AI language model ChatGPT training. The lawsuits claim that ChatGPT reproduces “verbatim or nearly verbatim copyright-protected works of journalism” without proper attribution, including author, title, […]

President Biden Blocks Mass Transfer of Personal Data to High-Risk Nations

U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an Executive Order that prohibits the mass transfer of citizens’ personal data to countries of concern. The Executive Order also “provides safeguards around other activities that can give those countries access to Americans’ sensitive data,” the White House said in a statement. This includes sensitive information such as genomic data, biometric […]

MWC 2024: 5G momentum on a roll with 1.6 billion connections worldwide

New figures from GSMA Intelligence (GSMAi) released today at MWC Barcelona 2024 reveal that 5G connections are expected to represent over half (51 per cent) of mobile connections by 2029. Authors of the report note that 5G has been the fastest mobile generation rollout to date, surpassing one billion connections by the end of 2022, rising to […]

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