Artificial Intelligence Archives

Fake AI Chrome extensions with 300K users steal credentials, emails

A set of 30 malicious Chrome extensions that have been installed by more than 300,000 users are masquerading as AI assistants to steal credentials, email content, and browsing information. Some of the extensions are still present in the Chrome Web Store and have been installed by tens of thousands of users, while others show a […]

13 Nov

New Google Pixel AI feature analyzes phone conversations for scams

Google is adding a new AI-powered scam protection feature that monitors phone call conversations on Google Pixel devices to detect patterns that warn when the caller may be a scammer. Google has also added a new real-time protection feature to Google Play Protect that detects when unsafe apps are found on Google Play. The features […]

03 Nov

ChatGPT-4o can be used for autonomous voice-based scams

Researchers have shown that it’s possible to abuse OpenAI’s real-time voice API for ChatGPT-4o, an advanced LLM chatbot, to conduct financial scams with low to moderate success rates. ChatGPT-4o is OpenAI’s latest AI model that brings new enhancements, such as integrating text, voice, and vision inputs and outputs. Due to these new features, OpenAI integrated […]

01 Nov

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Search Chrome extension feels like a search hijacker

OpenAI’s new “ChatGPT search” Chrome extension feels like nothing more than a typical search hijacker, changing Chrome’s settings so your address bar searches go through ChatGPT Search instead. Yesterday, OpenAI launched its new AI search product “ChatGPT Search,” which provides real-time answers to conversational searches on the platform. “ChatGPT can now search the web in a […]

23 Oct

Google to let businesses create curated Chrome Web Stores for extensions

Google has announced it will soon allow organizations to create their own curated “Enterprise Web Store” of company-sanctioned browser extensions for Chrome and ChromeOS, aimed at improving productivity, security, and management for businesses. The new store, planned to enter preview later this year, aims to provide businesses with a dedicated, curated environment for browser extensions […]

12 Oct

OpenAI confirms threat actors use ChatGPT to write malware

OpenAI has disrupted over 20 malicious cyber operations abusing its AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for debugging and developing malware, spreading misinformation, evading detection, and conducting spear-phishing attacks. The report, which focuses on operations since the beginning of the year, constitutes the first official confirmation that generative mainstream AI tools are used to enhance offensive cyber operations. […]

02 Oct

FIN7 hackers launch deepfake nude “generator” sites to spread malware

Image: Midjourney The notorious APT hacking group known as FIN7 has launched a network of fake AI-powered deepnude generator sites to infect visitors with information-stealing malware. FIN7 is believed to be a Russian hacking group that has been conducting financial fraud and cybercrime since 2013, with ties to ransomware gangs, such as DarkSide, BlackMatter, and BlackCat, who recently conducted […]

05 Sep

Microsoft removes revenge porn from Bing search using new tool

Microsoft announced today that it has partnered with StopNCII to proactively remove harmful intimate images and videos from Bing using digital hashes people create from their sensitive media. StopNCII is a project operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline that allows people to create digital hashes of their intimate pictures and videos without uploading the media from […]