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This week on the Lock and Code podcast… “Health” isn’t the first feature that most anyone thinks about when trying out a new technology, but a recent spate of news is forcing the issue when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI). In June, The New York Times reported on a group of ChatGPT users who

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Deepfake criminals impersonate Marco Rubio to uncover government secrets McDonald’s AI bot spills data on job applicants Millions of people spied on by malicious browser extensions in Chrome and Edge No thanks: Google lets its Gemini AI access your apps, including messages Ransomware negotiator investigated over criminal gang kickbacks Free

Deepfake attacks aren’t just for recruitment and banking fraud; they’ve now reached the highest levels of government. News emerged this week of an AI-powered attack that impersonated US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Authorities don’t know who was behind the incident. A US State Department cable seen by the Washington Post warned that someone impersonated

McDonald’s has outsourced the initial stages of its hiring process to an AI chatbot which seems to have been built without proper security measures. Security researchers managed to extract personal information about McDonald’s job applicants by simply guessing a username and the password “12345.” In doing this, the researchers could have potentially gained access to

If someone is going to negotiate with criminals for you, that person should at least be on your side. That might not have been the case at Digital Mint, a ransomware negotiation company where one worker allegedly went rogue. According to Bloomberg, Digital Mint is cooperating with the US Department of Justive (DoJ) to investigate

Let’s Encrypt has announced its issued its first certificate for an IP address. Why that’s significant deserves a little explanation. You may have run into Let’s Encrypt certificates many times without realizing it. When you see a padlock icon in your browser’s address bar, it means the site is using a certificate to secure your