Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of
Month: April 2023
AI and machine learning are hot topics in the technology industry, especially as ChatGPT and other generative AI take over headlines. So, it’s no surprise AI and ML were featured heavily at RSA Conference 2023. One session, “Hardening AI/ML Systems — The Next Frontier of Cybersecurity,” featured a panel discussion about why now is the
Weekly cyber-attacks have increased worldwide by 7% in Q1 2023 compared to the same period last year, with each firm facing an average of 1248 attacks per week. The figures come from Check Point’s latest research report, which also suggests that the education and research sector experienced the highest number of attacks, rising to an
by Paul Ducklin Researchers at dark web monitoring company Cyble recently wrote about a data-stealing-as-a-service toolkit that they found being advertised in an underground Telegram channel. One somewhat unusual aspect of this “service” (and in this context, we don’t mean that word in any sort of positive sense!) is that it was specifically built to
Apr 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Safety / Privacy / AI OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has officially made a return to Italy after the company met the data protection authority’s demands ahead of April 30, 2023, deadline. The development was first reported by the Associated Press. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, tweeted, “we’re excited ChatGPT is available
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The importance of understanding – and prioritizing – the privacy and security implications of large language models like ChatGPT cannot be overstated Thousands of security professionals descended on San Francisco this week to attend RSA Conference, the world’s leading gathering of the security community. What was the hottest topic at the event? You guessed it
On a balmy day in mid-April, thousands of people queued in line to enter the Hong Kong Convention Center where the city’s inaugural web3 festival was underway. Most had flown in from mainland China, but many others had trekked from Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and even the U.S. to see what the city had to
A UK secondary school has confirmed it was hit by a cyber-incident affecting its IT network. Hardenhuish School in Chippenham, Wiltshire, confirmed the attack on Thursday, saying hackers gained access to network infrastructure and then demanded a ransom for restoring access. At the time of writing, it is unclear whether the school paid the ransom,
by Naked Security writer A US court has recently unsealed a restraining order against a gang of alleged cybercrooks operating outside the country, based on a formal legal complaint from internet giant Google. Google, it seems, decided to use its size, influence and network data to say, “No more!”, based on evidence it had collected
Apr 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananHealthcare / Cybersecurity The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of a critical flaw impacting Illumina medical devices. The issues impact the Universal Copy Service (UCS) software in the Illumina MiSeqDx, NextSeq 550Dx, iScan, iSeq 100, MiniSeq, MiSeq, NextSeq 500, NextSeq
OpenAI, the startup behind the widely used conversational AI model ChatGPT, has picked up new backers, TechCrunch has learned. VC firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global picking up new shares, according to documents seen by TechCrunch. A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. Altogether the VCs have
ESET Research uncovers a campaign by the APT group known as Evasive Panda targeting an international NGO in China with malware delivered through updates of popular Chinese software ESET researchers have discovered a campaign that we attribute to the APT group known as Evasive Panda, where update channels of legitimate applications were mysteriously hijacked to
Brave just announced that it is now exclusively using its own index for its search engine. In other words, it doesn’t rely on third-party solutions like Bing anymore. When the company launched Brave Search in 2021, it mentioned that it relied on other providers for nearly 13% of its queries. A year later, that number
An Ohio man has been sentenced to four years and three months behind bars after stealing 712 bitcoin ($21m), which were seized by investigators following the arrest of his brother. Gary James Harmon, 31, of Cleveland, stole the cryptocurrency, which was the subject of “pending criminal forfeiture proceedings” in the case of his sibling, Larry
by Paul Ducklin 2FA, HACKING, AND PATCHING No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good podcasts are found. Or just drop the URL of our
Apr 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Security / Malware A significant number of victims in the consumer and enterprise sectors located across Australia, Japan, the U.S., and India have been affected by an evasive information-stealing malware called ViperSoftX. ViperSoftX was first documented in 2020, with cybersecurity company Avast detailing a campaign in November 2022 that leveraged the
As all things (wrongly called) AI take the world’s biggest security event by storm, we round up of some of their most-touted use cases and applications Okay, so there’s this ChatGPT thing layered on top of AI – well, not really, it seems even the practitioners responsible for some of the most impressive machine learning
Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in
Peacock losses continue to widen this quarter, NBCUniversal parent company Comcast reported Thursday, just days after the company announced that Jeff Shell’s time as NBCU CEO was up. Peacock had $704 million in losses in Q1 2023, a significant jump from $456 million in the same year-ago period. In the fourth quarter of 2022, Peacock
SAN FRANCISCO — IBM on Monday launched QRadar Suite, a subscription offering that combines AI-enhanced versions of IBM’s preexisting threat detection and response portfolio into one broad product. The product is a compilation of QRadar Log Insights and new versions of QRadar SIEM, QRadar EDR and XDR, and QRadar SOAR. Log Insights, a log management
Microsoft has claimed that recent attacks exploiting two vulnerabilities in the PaperCut print management software are likely the result of a Clop ransomware affiliate. The two bugs in question are CVE-2023–27350 – a critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw – and CVE-2023–27351 – a high severity unauthenticated information disclosure flaw. The former has a CVSS
by Paul Ducklin The Google Authenticator 2FA app has featured strongly in cybersecurity news stories lately, with Google adding a feature to let you backup your 2FA data into the cloud and then restore it onto other devices. To explain, a 2FA (two-factor authentication) app is one of those programs that you run on your
Apr 27, 2023Ravie LakshmananLinux / Endpoint Security The threat actors behind RTM Locker have developed a ransomware strain that’s capable of targeting Linux machines, marking the group’s first foray into the open source operating system. “Its locker ransomware infects Linux, NAS, and ESXi hosts and appears to be inspired by Babuk ransomware’s leaked source code,”
Meta shared some updated engagement info around its platforms on its Q1 2023 quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, with Meta CFO Susan Li joining CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg to field questions from analysts about its results. Zuckerberg shared that time spent on Instagram has grown more than 24% since the company launched Reels on
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that it intends to block Microsoft’s megabucks Activision acquisition, concluding that such a merger would create “…the most powerfuloperator” in the cloud gaming market. The CMA noted that with a current share of 60-70%, acquiring Activision’s portfolio of games would “substantially weaken competition” in the market.
Security researchers have discovered a high-severity vulnerability in the Service Location Protocol (SLP) which could be exploited to launch among the largest DDoS amplification attacks ever seen. BitSight and Curesec said the CVSS 8.6-rated bug CVE-2023-29552 could enable attackers to launch reflective amplification attacks with a factor as high as 2200 times. SLP was created
by Paul Ducklin We’ll be honest, and admit that we hadn’t heard of the printer management software PaperCut until this week. In fact, the first time we heard the name was in the context of cybercriminality and malware attacks, and we naively assumed that “PaperCut” was what we like to call a BWAIN. A BWAIN
Apr 26, 2023Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Vulnerability The maintainers of the Apache Superset open source data visualization software have released fixes to plug an insecure default configuration that could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27524 (CVSS score: 8.9), impacts versions up to and including 2.0.1 and relates to the use of
Hyundai Motor Group and General Motors announced separately Tuesday plans to build electric vehicle battery plants in the U.S. in partnership with South Korean battery manufacturing firms. Hyundai will set up a $5 billion battery cell production joint venture in the U.S. with SK On, the company that is also working with Ford to set
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