LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers
lexis nexis is a creepiest data aggregator out there. i recall seeing interview with the founder where he’s been bragging about buying hacked stolen databases of the darkweb “until feds take them down”. all your data
and this company is used to validate your tax worthiness.
Following recent and repeated public reporting about artificial intelligence (AI) technology breaking outside of human control and creating potentially dangerous viruses, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today urged America’s largest AI companies — Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI — to immediately pause their development of Artificial Intelligence.
Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.
How Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout lies | ChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in th…
Full title: How Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout lies | ChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in the misinformation war
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a “factory-shipped backdoor” implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink.
According to a new report from VulnCheck, the implant appears in all 21 firmware images currently available from Zbtlink that span more than 2 years. The backdoors are designed such that they start automatically and attempt to beacon to Chinese command-and-control (C2) infrastructure as often as every 35 seconds.
They masquerade as a Linux kernel thread, but are actually userland processes running with root privileges while blending their true functionality with other legitimate kworker processes. The “phone home” implants have been codenamed ENDLESSDOORS.
“ENDLESSDOORS, at its core, is a small tool called rctl (remote control linux),” Jacob Baines, VulnCheck Chief Technology Officer, said. “Uploaded to GitHub on January 14, 2015 and never touched again, this obscure repository implements a simple command and control client and server.”
“The server listens on port 7000 for clients to connect. It can send the client individual shell commands or tell the client to spawn a reverse bash shell.”
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The “kworker” worker process running on Zbtlink AX3000, which VulnCheck analyzed, is a customized version of rctl that’s configured to contact the following -
AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes.
Tom's HardwareAfter 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolismGermany's strict laws surrounding depictions of Nazis meant the game had to be altered, giving it an arguably more interesting story as a result.
