Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Crooks created a new tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and BEC. These posts introduced a new tool that incorporates Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and Business E-Mail Compromise (BEC).

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2025

Technical support consultant using programming to upgrade artificial intelligence simulation model As AI tools boom in popularity, cyberthieves are exploiting the excitement with fake AI video editing platforms that lure users into downloading malware. The account was created on March 16. Check file extensions.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2021

A written proposal to ban several uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and to place new oversight on other “high-risk” AI applications—published by the European Commission this week—met fierce opposition from several digital rights advocates in Europe. The proposal includes a few core segments. Hopefully, they’re for the better.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used its ChatGPT tool to develop a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tool.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And yet, if artificial intelligence achieves what is called an agentic model in 2025, novel and boundless attacks could be within reach, as AI tools take on the roles of agents that independently discover vulnerabilities, steal logins, and pry into accounts. But where has that imagination brought us? That could change in 2025.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2025

This update must be completed by 2025-03-16 to avoid any potential penalties or disruptions to your account. Perhaps they’ll sell the details on the dark web, or use them for themselves to get access to your Microsoft accounts. Instead use a secure method such as your online account or another application on IRS.gov.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Phishing In phishing scams, cybercriminals trick people and businesses into handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers or login details for vital online accounts. Lured in by similar color schemes, company logos, and familiar layouts, victims log in to their account by entering their username and password.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

Common attacks to consumer protection Identity theft and fraud Some common types of identity theft and fraud include account takeover fraud , when criminals use stolen personal information such as account numbers, usernames, or passwords to hijack bank accounts, credit cards, and even email and social media accounts.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Even though the saying is older than you might think, it did not come about earlier than the concept of artificial intelligence (AI). A lot of AI related stories this year dealt with social media and other public sources that were scraped to train an AI model. Deepfakes can be used in scams and in disinformation campaigns.

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Joseph Steinberg

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Initiate contact with a charity via its website/listed phone number/physical address/official social media accounts; never send payment details to anyone who initiates contact with you and claims to represent a charity. Ask would be visitors to leave information about the charity for which they are collecting, and research it online.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

million customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts. Using a forum or social media account to send phishing messages or spam.

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The Hacker News

MAY 1, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an "influence-as-a-service" operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 23, 2024

The post Newsweek Op-Ed: Oversight of the Management of Cybersecurity Risks: The Skill Corporate Boards Need, But, So Often, Do Not Have appeared first on Joseph Steinberg: CyberSecurity Expert Witness, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

But for all the consternation over the potential for humans to be replaced by machines in formats like poetry and sitcom scripts, a far greater threat looms: artificial intelligence replacing humans in the democratic processes—not through voting, but through lobbying. But such messages are just the beginning.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Social media is allowing companies to show their creativity and personality to customers and the world like never before. Today, businesses have the ability to reach millions of people through social media—regularly and as creatively as they dare. How does AI boost social media? A staggering 4.62

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

CISA adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Three new Ivanti CSA zero-day actively exploited in attacks Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 18, 2025

From tech used to make education more accessible, for example, to the ever talked about artificial intelligence (AI) shaping many sectors, the way tech has integrated with the modern world both seamlessly and speedily is notable. In fact, youre more likely to be targeted on social media.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 25, 2025

If you are worried about revealing your exact locationor if you maybe even fib about it at timesthere are some good reasons to worry about what is visible in background photos, because Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting very good at guessing where you are based on the smallest of clues.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2025

In June 2024, the social media giant announced it was delaying the training of its large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram following the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) request. Were proud that our approach is more transparent than many of our industry counterparts.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data from the accounts of Australian adult users to train its AI models. Claybaugh said yes, but she added that accounts of people under 18 were not scraped. That’s the reality, isn’t it?”

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SecureWorld News

MAY 5, 2024

Introduction The inaugural issue of AI-Cybersecurity Update set the stage for a broad discussion on the transformative impacts of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity. As synthetic media becomes more sophisticated, the techniques to detect such content must also evolve. Promoting media literacy is another essential strategy.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 5, 2023

To those interested in known news bits on the technology of Artificial Intelligence, here some fuel for thought. According to a report published in New York Post, a woman located in the same city has married a virtual man generated to the Artificial Intelligence.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

It seems that everyone is rushing to embed artificial intelligence into their solutions, and security offerings are among the latest to obtain this shiny new thing. In reality, it was an April fool’s prank with MITRE’s social media team cranking out funny answers in the guise of a chatbot.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Krebs On Security received this update from the professional social media giant and initiated an inquiry along with the public disclosure. To curtail such profile attacks, the networking website is apparently taking the help of Artificial Intelligence to neutralize such campaigns.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

We have on average 67 applications on our mobile phones, seven social media accounts and more than 120 online accounts. But these accounts are not all about networking and games. Applying artificial intelligence and using natural language processing to dissect the complex privacy policies is the right way forward.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A large social media campaign was launched to promote a free Artificial Intelligence (AI) video editor. The campaign to promote the AI video editor was active on several social media platforms, like X, Facebook, and YouTube… …and had been active for quite a while. Monitor your accounts.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. It’s also a contest about control and power, about how resources should be distributed and who should be held accountable. The reality, unfortunately, is quite different.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

As I lay out in a report I just published , artificial intelligence will eventually find vulnerabilities in all sorts of social, economic, and political systems, and then exploit them at unprecedented speed, scale, and scope. The programmers will be satisfied, the accountants ecstatic. Not for long.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

The exploding popularity of AI and its proliferation within the media has led to a rush to integrate this incredibly powerful technology into all sorts of different applications. In the initial stages of implementation, regulators might provide guidance on how to demonstrate accountability.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

One of the biggest threats on the horizon: artificial personas are coming, and they're poised to take over political debate. The risk arises from two separate threads coming together: artificial intelligence-driven text generation and social media chatbots. Chatbots have been skewing social-media discussions for years.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Phishing and Social Engineering : Phishing remains a popular attack method, leveraging emails, fake websites, and social media to deceive users into providing sensitive information. The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning has enabled hackers to automate their attacks, making them more efficient and harder to detect.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

China is using generative artificial intelligence to carry out influence operations against foreign countries, including the U.S. The state-sponsored activity relies on deceptive social media accounts posing provocative questions on divisive U.S. and Taiwan. and Taiwan, and fuel social disorders. domestic issues.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 14, 2024

In what may come as a surprise to nobody at all, there’s been yet another complaint about using social media data to train Artificial Intelligence (AI). We don’t just report on threats – we help protect your social media Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Snapchat is reserving the right to use your selfie images to power Cameos, Generative AI, and other experiences on Snapchat, including ads, according to our friends at 404 Media , The Snapchat Support page about its My Selfie feature says: “You’ll take selfies with your Snap camera or select images from your camera roll. It isn’t!

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Add to that the websites we visit that Google tracks through its advertising network, our Gmail accounts, our movements via Google Maps , and what it can collect from our smartphones. The media has been reporting on surveillance capitalism for years. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented.

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