Following a pair of lawsuits alleging that chatbots caused a teen boy’s suicide, groomed a 9-year-old girl, and caused a vulnerable teen to self-harm, Character.AI (C.AI) has announced a separate model just for teens, ages 13 and up, that’s supposed to make their experiences with bots safer. In a blog, C.AI said it took a … Read more
Introduction As the third revolution in modern-day warfare, artificial intelligence systems are supplementing conventional forms of warfare, such as Israel’s Lavender system which claims to precisely identify and target Hamas combatants or Ukraine’s use of Clearview AI to identify Russian targets from social media and satellite feeds. A parallel interest in AI-governance has thus boomed, … Read more
The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report revealed that 49.6% of the global internet traffic came from bots in 2023—a 2% increase over the previous year and the highest level Imperva has reported since it began monitoring automated traffic in 2013. Similarly, the proportion of web traffic associated with bad bots grew to 32% in 2023, … Read more
A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures and deliver Remcos RAT, indicating that the method is gaining traction among threat actors. “In this campaign, legitimate repositories such as the open-source tax filing software, UsTaxes, HMRC, … Read more
