Wire reported this Week in public records showing that the US Department of Security is enforcing local law across the country to interpret common protest activities and logistics – including bicycles, police or skateboarding – as “violent tactics”. This guidance can affect the police to use everyday behaviors as an excuse for police action.
An artificial intelligence robot used on McDonald’s “Mchire” site exposed tens of millions of personal data applicants’ data due to a group of web-based security vulnerabilities, including the use of classic “123456” password. The ChatBot of this site, known as Olivia, was developed by Paradox.ai Artificial Intelligence Software. Meanwhile, following the devastating floods in Texas that killed at least 120 people last week, conspiracy theories about this fierce climate event have gained sufficiently among anti -government extremists, GOP and other large platforms to create consequences in the real world, such as death threats.
Finally, Abrshal of the complete “raw” monitoring films, recorded the night before the disgraceful capitalist was found near Jeffrey’s cell, shows that the film is not “raw”. Instead, according to a wired analysis and digital video forensic experts, the full film is made of two clips and is probably processed using powerful editing software.
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Earlier this year, three retailers in the UK-Hararods, cooperatives and M & S-were disrupted by increasing cyber attacks. Some shelves have remained empty for weeks, and M&S executives expect the attacks to cost £ 300m ($ 407 million). This week, law enforcement officials at the National Crime Agency (NCA), equivalent to the FBI, announced the arrest of four people as part of the investigation into the three attacks.
A 20 -year -old woman, two 19 -year -olds and the other 17 -year -old were all arrested on Thursday morning in their homes in western Midlands and London. NCA says one of the 19 -year -old men is Latvia, while the rest are British. NCA said in a statement: “They are suspected of possible offenses of computers, blackmail, money laundering and” participating in the activities of an organized crime group “. The law enforcement agency has not named the arrested persons or the exact locations in which they were deployed. However, NCA’s deputy director, Paul Foster, said arrests are “important” in his research.
The attacks against three British retailers, including part of the NCA, have been linked to a dispersed spider criminal group. The hacking group, which first appeared in 2022, is mainly made up of young and English -speaking people, and has recently seen retailers, airlines and insurance companies throughout the United Kingdom and the United States.
It was not long criminals to start using the productive AI to create images of superb child’s sexual abuse. Currently, a huge volume of illegal content created by AI is found online and criminals are moving to use this technology to create film as well as fixed images. During the first six months of this year, an internet-based organization analysts, an UK-based organization that eliminates child sexual abuse (CSAM) from the web, identified 1,286 films produced by AI showing abuse-showed the most serious abuse of 1,000.
“There is an incredible risk of CSAM produced by AI, which leads to an absolute explosion that overshadows the clear network,” said Derek Ray Hill, chief executive officer of the Internet Watch Foundation. Separate figures from the National Center for Children and Operation (NCMEC) say that in the first half of this year it received 485,000 reports from AI CSAM-from 67,000 for the whole year. NCMEC said about 35 technical companies have reported that the CSAM produced by AI has found on their operating systems.
In a rare example of Western law enforcement, which actually deals with a hacker claimed by the Chinese government, Italian police XU zewei arrested 33 -year -old Shanghai on July 3. The police sought to arrest XU on charges of hacking by the US Department of Justice. Officials claim that he is a member of the spy group known as the Silk Tops or Hydenium, which has been theft of extensive data from Western governments and private sector companies for years. US prosecutors specifically accuse XU, who are involved in hacking the Silk Typhoon, targeting researchers who strive for the development of the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020 and 2021. Zo’s lawyer denied the allegations, saying that this is a wrong case, and XU’s wife also said that XU is an IT technician at GTA Semi Hadnor.
More news about alleged hackers at European airports – and a very unusual case of cybercriminal offenders – police this week arrested Russian professional basketball player Daniel Katkin at Charles Deagel Airport in Paris and accused him of being part of the Ransomware group. Officials have not yet named the Ransomware crew, claiming that Kasatkin is part of it, but they say that from 2020 to 2022, nearly 900 organizations, including two US government agencies. Frédéric Bélot, Kasatkin’s lawyer, denied the allegations, saying his customer “is useless with computers and could not even install a program.” Kasatkin, who played for the MBA Moscow professional basketball team, had traveled to France with his fiancée to offer him.
Here your annual reminder, the world’s too sports sports set your STRVA account settings privately. This week, the Swedish Dagens Nyheter newspaper revealed that seven bodyguards for Swedish government officials left their Strava accounts publicly and showed their places to perform 1,400 sports activities – and in many cases, the location of those who protected them, including the Swedish Prime Minister, ULF Kristerson. The prime minister’s leaked places included hotels, private addresses, family holidays, overseas trips, and his private home that were supposed to be a secret. Repeat after me, Strava enthusiasts with security clearance: Go to the settings, tap privacy controls, then tap activities. The future scandal was prevented.
