Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (18 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY Iran’s APT34 Abuses MS Exchange to Spy on Gulf Gov’ts (Nate Nelson – Dark Reading – 17 October 2024) An Iranian threat actor has been ramping up its espionage against Gulf-state government entities, particularly those within the United Arab Emirates (UAE). APT34 (aka Earth Simnavaz, OilRig, MuddyWater, Crambus, Europium, Hazel […]
Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (17 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY Meta’s AI chief says world models are key to ‘human-level AI’ — but it might be 10 years out (Maxwell Zeff – TechCrunch – 16 October 2024) Are today’s AI models truly remembering, thinking, planning, and reasoning, just like a human brain would? Some AI labs would have you believe […]
Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (16 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY – Microsoft: Nation-States Team Up with Cybercriminals for Attacks (James Coker – Infosecurity Magazine – 15 October 2024) Nation-state threat actors have ramped up cooperation with cybercriminals in the past year to advance their political and military goals, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2024. The use of cybercriminals by […]
Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (15 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY – Southeast Asian Cybercrime Profits Fuel Shadow Economy (Robert Lemos – Dark Reading – 15 October 2024) Cyber-enabled fraud, innovative criminal organizations, and advances in money laundering have created a booming shadow economy in Southeast Asia that grows more entrenched every year, creating challenges for governments in the region. The criminal […]
Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (10 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY – The Bletchley Park process could be a building block for global cooperation on AI safety (Joshua P. Meltzer, Paul Triolo – Brookings – 7 October 2024) Considerable progress has been made on international governance of artificial intelligence (AI). This includes work under the G7 Hiroshima Process, at the Organization […]
Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (9 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY (Associated Press/SecurityWeek – 9 October 2024) The European Union on Tuesday set up a system for imposing sanctions against people accused of cyberattacks, information manipulation or acts of sabotage on behalf of Russia to undermine EU support for Ukraine. NATO warned earlier this year of Russian “hostile state activity” against […]
Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (8 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY – US Warns of Foreign Interference in Congressional Races Ahead of Election (Kevin Poireault – Infosecurity Magazine – 8 October 2024) One month away from the US presidential election, the US intelligence community is observing foreign interference campaigns at both a local and national level. In an early October security […]
Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (7 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY – Kyiv’s hackers launched an unprecedented cyber attack on Russian state media VGTRK on Putin’s birthday (Pierluigi Paganini – Security Affairs – 7 October 2024) A Ukrainian government source told Reuters that Kyiv’s hackers are behind the cyber attack that disrupted operations at the Russian state media company VGTRK on Putin’s […]
Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (4 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY – Russian Disinformation Targets the European Union (Sergey Sukhankin – The Jamestown Foundation – 2 October 2024) Russia continues to conduct misinformation campaigns against Europe. As its war in Ukraine continues and Europeans become tired of the prolonged conflict, fewer people will be engaged and thus more susceptible to disinformation coming […]
Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (2 October 2024)

TOP OF THE DAY – New and Old Tools to Tackle Deepfakes and Election Lies in 2024 (Kenneth Parreno, Christine Kwon, Victoria Bullock, John Langford – Lawfare – 1 October 2024) It will come as no surprise (…) that deepfakes and election lies pose a serious and growing risk to voters and the integrity of […]