Cybersecurity
OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down as logins and signups fail
ChatGPT is experiencing a major outage, and users are unable to sign in, create accounts, or load chats, including previous conversations. [...]
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Cybersecurity & InfoSec
Cybersecurity
Rogue ransomware affiliate poses as recovery firm to steal payments
A suspected ransomware affiliate is posing as a ransomware recovery service called "Ransom Busters," contacting the victims before the attacks become public and claiming to be able to provide decryption keys and delete stolen data for a…
Cybersecurity
Sakura Internet hack exposes data of up to 1.36 million accounts
Japanese cloud and data center service provider Sakura Internet disclosed that hackers accessed its sales management system, where customer contract and membership information is stored. [...]
Threat Desk
Hacking & Threat Intelligence
Threat Intelligence
Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate…
Threat Intelligence
OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert…
Threat Intelligence
SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central Asian Governments with Five New RATs
A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been…
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Technology & Cryptocurrency
Technology
Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin briefly hits $70,000 for the first time since June. Here is why
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Technology
Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities
The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company's push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitability.
