Asokan is a U.K.-based senior correspondent for Information Security Media Group's global news desk. She previously worked with IDG and other publications, reporting on developments in technology, minority rights and education.
Cybercrooks are exploring ways to develop custom, malicious large language models after existing tools such as WormGPT failed to cater to their demands for advanced intrusion capabilities, security researchers say. Undergrounds forums teem with hackers' discussions about how to exploit guardrails.
Chinese hacking contractor iSoon supported three separate cyberespionage operations on behalf of Beijing, say security researchers who analyzed a leaked data trove belonging to the firm. Details of the inside workings of the previously obscure Chinese hacking-for-hire firm emerged in February.
The European Commission will scrutinize Meta's pivot to a subscription model in response to a string of rulings from data protection boards limiting the social media giant's ability to legally collect user data. Europe announced a slew of investigations into American big-tech companies.
Chinese state hackers targeted multiple British politicians, the U.K. government said Monday in a coordinated disclosure of Chinese state hacking activities designed to ramp up international pressure on Beijing. The British government summoned the Chinese ambassador to the Foreign Office.
A Russian hacking group is targeting German political parties as part of a Moscow-backed espionage campaign. The latest APT29 campaign marks the first time the group has been seen targeting political organizations, according to researchers at Mandiant.
The United Nations on Thursday unanimously adopted a U.S.-brokered first-ever international resolution promoting the safe use of artificial intelligence. The adoption of the resolution comes at a time when governments are vying to exert influence and lead global governance in the nascent technology.
The current use of artificial intelligence in the U.K. defense sector is not about creating killer robots. It is focused on optimizing resources and increasing the efficiency of military operations, experts speaking at the Alan Turing Institute's AI UK conference told attendees.
European aerospace giant Airbus on Tuesday called off a multibillion-euro plan to acquire a cybersecurity unit of French IT consultancy firm Atos. Share values of cash-strapped Atos fell approximately 20% by the end of the trading day. Airbus' value rose by nearly 1%.
Nation-state-led disinformation campaigns that intend to erode public trust are the biggest threat to the upcoming U.K. election, experts told a parliamentary panel on Monday. Incidents of disinformation created with artificial intelligence have already been reported.
Facebook's attempt to navigate European privacy regulations by giving users a fee-based opt-out from behavioral advertising triggered backlash from more than a dozen European politicians who accused the social media giant of treating human rights as a commodity.
Researchers at security firm Salt Security have uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in third-party plug-ins used in ChatGPT, including a zero-click account takeover flaw that was triggered when users attempted to install the plug-in using their ChatGPT accounts.
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, completing a penultimate step to enacting the world's first comprehensive AI regulation. The act needs final signoff from the European Council, which is expected by May.
The Spanish High Court on Monday sided with the country's data regulator, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, to uphold a three-month ban on OpenAI founder Sam Altman's controversial digital identity and cryptocurrency platform Worldcoin due to privacy concerns.
The Italian data protection regulator opened a privacy inquiry into Sora, OpenAI's newly announced text-to-video artificial intelligence model. The inquiry follows an ongoing probe into ChatGPT. OpenAI has 20 days to respond to a number of questions posed by the Italian agency.
The Conservative government of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says it won't champion a reinsurance plan for cyber insurance similar to flood insurance, telling a parliamentary committee it doesn't want to "damage competition." Global ransomware payments surged to record levels during 2023.
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