Law enforcement authorities have announced that they tracked down the customers of the SmokeLoader malware and detained at least five individuals. “In a coordinated series of actions, customers of the Smokeloader pay-per-install botnet, operated by the actor known as ‘Superstar,’ faced consequences such as arrests, house searches, arrest warrants or ‘knock and talks,’” Europol said […]
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Google, PJM, and Tapestry collaborate to use AI to accelerate grid connections.
OpenAI is preparing to launch as many as three new AI models, possibly called “o4-mini”, “o4-mini-high” and “o3”. […]
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform called AkiraBot that’s used to spam website chats, comment sections, and contact forms to promote dubious search engine optimization (SEO) services such as Akira and ServicewrapGO. “AkiraBot has targeted more than 400,000 websites and successfully spammed at least 80,000 websites since September
Copilot on Windows 11 is testing OS-level integration that would allow you to share your favourite apps’ screen with Copilot. […]
Google has quietly launched Firebase Studio, which is a cloud-based AI-powered integrated development environment that lets you build full-fledged apps using prompts. […]
A targeted campaign exploited Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities in websites hosted on AWS EC2 instances to extract EC2 Metadata, which could include Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials from the IMDSv1 endpoint. […]
Oracle finally confirmed in email notifications sent to customers that a hacker stole and leaked credentials that were stolen from what it described as “two obsolete servers.” […]
Microsoft’s April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates are strangely creating an empty “inetpub” folder in the root of the C: drive, even on systems that do not have Internet Information Services (IIS) installed. […]
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