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Trojanized versions of PuTTY utility being used to spread backdoor

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers believe hackers with connections to the North Korean government have been pushing a Trojanized version of the PuTTY networking utility in an attempt to backdoor the network of organizations they want to spy on. Researchers from security firm Mandiant said on Thursday that at least one customer it serves had...

Have AI image generators assimilated your art? New tool lets you check
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Have AI image generators assimilated your art? New tool lets you check

Enlarge / An image of the “Have I Been Trained?” website featuring a search for one of its creators, Holly Herndon. (credit: Holly Herndon) In response to controversy over image synthesis models learning from artists’ images scraped from the Internet without consent—and potentially replicating their artistic styles—a group of artists has released a new website...

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Microsoft Teams stores cleartext auth tokens, won’t be quickly patched

Enlarge / Using Teams in a browser is actually safer than using Microsoft’s desktop apps, which are wrapped around a browser. It’s a lot to work through. (credit: Jernej Furman / Flickr) Microsoft’s Teams client stores users’ authentication tokens in an unprotected text format, potentially allowing attackers with local access to post messages and move...

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New AI assistant can browse, search, and use web apps like a human

Enlarge / Still from a demo video showing ACT-1 performing a search on Redfin.com in a browser when asked to “find me a house.” (credit: Adept) Yesterday, California-based AI firm Adept announced Action Transformer (ACT-1), an AI model that can perform actions in software like a human assistant when given high-level written or verbal commands....

Ukraine’s cyberwar chief sounds like he’s winning
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Ukraine’s cyberwar chief sounds like he’s winning

Enlarge (credit: Evgen Kotenko/Getty Images) Yurii Shchyhol doesn’t have a lot of time to spare. The head of the Derzhspetszviazok, Ukraine’s version of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, can be forgiven for working speedily. His country is under attack—and with it, the world order. “This is the first time ever in history that...