Israeli researchers from Offensive AI Lab have published a paper describing a method for restoring the text of intercepted AI chatbot messages. Today we take a look at how this attack works, and how dangerous it is in reality. What information can be extracted from intercepted AI chatbot messages? Naturally, chatbots send messages in encrypted form....

When it comes to spam, we usually think of a bunch of absolutely irrelevant advertising letters, which antispam engines filter out with no trouble at all. However, this is far from the most unpleasant thing that can fall into your mailbox. Sometimes spam is used to carry out a DDoS attack on corporate email addresses, and the victim gets bombarded with...

Making money with cryptocurrency is imagined by many to be a sinecure: one lucky trade and you’re set for life. While theoretically possible, just like winning the lottery, it only happens to an incredibly small number of people. “Getting rich with crypto” is more of a meme than reality. Yet self-proclaimed crypto-millionaires flaunt their Lamborghinis,...

The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires major tech companies to make their products more open and interoperable in order to increase competition. Thanks to the DMA, iOS will soon permit third-party app stores to be installed on it, and major messaging platforms will need to allow communication with other similar apps — creating cross-platform compatibility....

Episode 343 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast begins with news that Instagram is testing a tool to help tackle ‘sextortion’, or intimate image abuse. Following that, the team discuss how criminals are increasingly using A.I to defraud consumers out of their money. The last two stories look at X and ransomware. The first story focuses on how X is automatically...

The industrial scale of surveillance of internet users is a topic we keep returning to. Every click on a website, every scroll in a mobile app, and every word you type into a search bar is tracked by dozens of tech companies and advertising firms. And it affects not only phones and computers, but also smart watches, smart TVs and speakers — even cars....