ChatGPT is available in Italy again as OpenAI agreed to respect regulator demands. The country's top regulator authority criticized the company's age verification rules. More: - OpenAI shut down ChatGPT in Italy last month after the country's data protection authority, Garante, launched a probe over the app's privacy policy.
- Garante accused OpenAI of failing to check the age of ChatGPT's users, who are supposed to be aged 13 or above.
- OpenAI later said that it would add a tool to verify users' ages in Italy in the sign-up stage.
- ChatGPT also added a new form for European Union users who can fill it out to object to the use of their data for AI training models.
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 Advanced fee fraud cases rose by 600% between 2020 and 2022, according to a new report from the U.K.'s Office of National Statistics. The report claims the attacks accelerated during the pandemic. More: - AFF scams involve the victim being asked to pay an upfront fee or provide personal information in exchange for a promised reward or financial gain.
- To deploy the attack, scammers are using threat vectors such as impersonating legitimate businesses or government agencies and social hacking.
- The most commonly reported types of these scams are:
- romance scams,
- lottery scams,
- and employment scams.
- The report warns that these types of scams are likely to continue to increase in frequency as scammers become more sophisticated and target a wider range of victims.
Zoom Out: - In 2021, a woman in Australia had $2.2M stolen by a scammer she met online.
- In 2022, another woman in Australia was scammed out of $11,000 by a man she met online who used a fake identity.
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Researchers claim that the North Korean hacker group ScarCruft is using new malware named RokRat. The malware is targeting organizations in Southeast Asia. More: - RokRat is a remote access trojan that allows attackers to take control of infected systems and steal data.
- The malware is distributed through spear-phishing emails that breach targets by having the victims click on malicious attachments or links.
- Researchers believe that ScarCruft is part of a larger cyber espionage campaign being carried out by North Korea, which is targeting organizations in Southeast Asia as part of its ongoing efforts to circumvent international sanctions.
Zoom Out: - ScarCruft has previously been linked to a number of high-profile cyber attacks, including stealing classified military data from South Korea in 2016.
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A U.K. gun owners' association has been hacked, raising suspicions that gun owners may be imminently targeted by hackers. U.K. authorities stated that they were not able to track the cyberattack More: - The National Crime Agency is conducting an investigation into the hacking campaign that stole an unspecific amount of data from the National Smallbore Rifle Association.
- Authorities stated that, at the moment, they cannot pinpoint where the cyberattack came from.
- Researchers have warned that this data could be used by criminal gangs to target their properties for weapons, which are difficult to get hold of in the U.K. and, therefore, valuable in the black market.
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Researchers have tracked a new Iran-backed malware campaign named BouldSpy. The company is likely targeting minorities in Iran. More: - The spyware is being used to target Iranian dissidents and political activists, as well as individuals in other countries, including the United States and Canada.
- BouldSpy can record phone calls, take screenshots, and log keystrokes.
- The spyware is distributed through a fake app store called Wolf Market and is disguised apps such as:
- WhatsApp,
- Telegram,
- and Signal.
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Researchers have discovered new vulnerabilities in the Border Gateway Protocol. The flaws could allow attackers to intercept traffic and redirect it. More: - The vulnerabilities affect BGP implementations in multiple operating systems, including Cisco IOS XR, Juniper Junos, and FRRouting.
- The flaws allow attackers to send specially crafted BGP messages that cause routing tables to be altered, allowing traffic to be redirected to attacker-controlled servers.
- Attackers could use this technique to steal sensitive information, launch man-in-the-middle attacks, or carry out other malicious activities.
- The researchers have notified affected vendors and have recommended that users update their BGP implementations to the latest versions as soon as possible.
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 |  | Arbër is an Inside writer who also has experience in entrepreneurship. He has experience covering Consumer Tech, Venture Capital, NFTs, Crypto, etc. Arbër holds a Bachelor's degree in Business from XAMK University in Finland. When he is not reading(and writing) business news, he chooses to watch sports or anime...and then read news about sports or anime. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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