Latest coverage for Artificial Intelligence

A Fake Software Library Made Up by a ChatBot Was Downloaded More Than 35,000 TimesGenerative artificial intelligence is good at sounding authoritative - even when it's making stuff up. One community that thinks so-called AI hallucinations are actually a good thing: hackers. Especially when developers use AI tools that hallucinate entire software libraries.

One issue would have allowed cross-tenant attacks, and another enabled access to a shared registry for container images; exploitation via an insecure Pickle file showcases emerging risks for AI-as-a-service more broadly.

Our collection of the most relevant reporting and industry perspectives for those guiding cybersecurity strategies and focused on SecOps. Also included: Dealing with a Ramadan cyber spike; funding Internet security; and Microsoft's Azure AI changes.

Chance of AI-Generated Content Affecting Results Appears to Remain Low - for NowChina-backed attackers are continuing to refine their use of content generated using artificial intelligence tools, including audio deepfakes and video news anchors, to sow disruption and influence elections in the U.S., Taiwan, India and beyond, security researchers at Microsoft warn.

Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney, OpenAI's SORA and ChatGPT-5, and DALL-E, to infect unsuspecting users with password-stealing malware. [...]

New research has found that artificial intelligence (AI)-as-a-service providers such as Hugging Face are susceptible to two critical risks that could allow threat actors to escalate privileges, gain cross-tenant access to other customers' models, and even take over the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines

Wiz researchers found architecture flaws in generative AI models available on the AI hub Hugging Face

A Microsoft report found that China-affiliated actors are publishing AI-generated content on social media to amplify controversial domestic issues in the US

'Fictitious Dialogue' About Harmful Content Subverts Defenses, Researchers FindAfter testing safety features built into generative artificial intelligence tools developed by the likes of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind, researchers have discovered that a technique called "many-shot jailbreaking" can be used to defeat safety guardrails and obtain prohibited content.

Cybercriminals are using AI to impersonate small businesses. Security architects are using it to help small businesses fight back.

Infosecurity Europe 2024 will feature a keynote presentation by deepfake expert Henry Ajder, exploring the implications of generative AI on cybersecurity

Watch this webinar for a hair raising journey into the darkest depths of GenAI enabled cyber crime Sponsored Post Artificial intelligence (AI) offers enormous commercial potential but also substantial risks to data security if it is harnessed by cyber criminals intent on stealing or corrupting sensitive information for their own gain.…

Nations to Jointly Develop Evaluation Mechanisms and Risk Mitigation GuidesThe United States and the United Kingdom signed a landmark artificial intelligence agreement on Monday to work together to develop tests for the most advanced AI models and share research capabilities. The countries also committed to developing similar partnerships with other nations.

The UK and the US have signed a partnership to coordinate the work of their respective AI Safety Institutes

Altman's Role as Fund's Sole Owner Was Meant to Be Temporary, OpenAI SaysOpenAI CEO Sam Altman no longer owns the company's $325 million venture capital fund launched with backing from Microsoft. Altman's role as the fund's sole owner raised eyebrows although OpenAI said the arrangement was always meant to be temporary.

Fortanix is working on technologies to build a security wall around AI search.

Synechron's Ivan Perić on Mitigating Credit Issues, Ensuring Regulatory ComplianceCredit risk is a persistent challenge for financial institutions, particularly in business lending. Ivan Perić, head of global artificial intelligence R&D at Synechron, discussed how AI can assess credit risk, ensure regulatory compliance and mitigate operational risks.

Simple stuff like slapping on a logo fools more folks and travels further As hundreds of millions of voters around the globe prepare to elect their leaders this year, there's no question that trolls will try to sway the outcomes using AI, according to Clint Watts, general manager of Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center.…

This article provides an in-depth look into two techniques used by Earth Freybug actors: dynamic-link library (DLL) hijacking and application programming interface (API) unhooking to prevent child processes from being monitored via a new malware we’ve discovered and dubbed UNAPIMON.