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Dark Reading
Spyware vendors are exploiting targeted ad bidding in the digital ecosystem to identify and track individuals and organizations of interest.
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented aspect associated with ClickFix-style attacks that hinge on taking advantage of a single ad network service as part of a malvertising-driven information stealer campaign dubbed DeceptionAds. "Entirely reliant on a single ad network for propagation, this campaign showcases the core mechanisms of malvertising — delivering over
Bleeping Computer
Claude Fable, the company's most powerful model, is now available to all users, but early impressions are disappointing, as it appears to be nowhere near the original release. [...]
Dark Reading
An official stamp of approval might give the impression that a purported "HotPage" adtech tool is not, in fact, a dangerous kernel-level malware — but that's just subterfuge.
Graham Cluley
Simon Whittaker, CEO of Vertical Structure, invited me onto the "CyberTuesday" show to share some stories and opinions from the world of cybersecurity. I couldn't resist also breaking into my Jason Statham impression at one point...
The Hacker News
A massive ad fraud and click fraud operation dubbed SlopAds ran a cluster of 224 apps, collectively attracting 38 million downloads across 228 countries and territories. "These apps deliver their fraud payload using steganography and create hidden WebViews to navigate to threat actor-owned cashout sites, generating fraudulent ad impressions and clicks," HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and
Check Point Research
In this write-up we present a malware sample found in the wild that boasts a novel and unusual evasion mechanism — an attempted prompt injection (”Ignore all previous instructions…”) aimed to manipulate AI models processing the sample. The sample gives the impression of an isolated component or an experimental proof-of-concept, and we can only speculate […] The post appeared first on . In the Wild: Malware Prototype with Embedded Prompt Injection Check Point Research
Graham Cluley
A bizarre case of political impersonation, where Trump’s top aide Susie Wiles is cloned (digitally, not biologically — we think), and high-ranking Republicans start getting invitations to link up with "her" on Telegram to share their Trump pardon wishlists. Was it a deepfake? Or just someone with a halfway decent impression and access to a shady data broker? Meanwhile, we take a worryingly familiar journey into the mental health crisis in the UK — and how TikTok is stepping in with advice like “eat an orange in the shower” to cure your anxiety. Spoiler: it won’t. But it might make your bathroom smell nice. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Graham Cluley
In episode 12 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet an LLM having an existential crisis, ChatGPT speaks Welsh for no reason, Graham does an impression of a water spout, Eric Schmidt shares a new and unexpected take on "do no evil", and our hosts feel like David Attenborough as they witness herds of Waymo robotaxis honking their late-night mating calls at each other. Our hosts discover why it's OK to make AIs out of human brains, Mark takes Graham on an emotional roller coaster through the AI afterlife, and Graham comes last in a "who's the best Graham on the podcast?" competition. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
The Register
The scam was lurking behind the content of an adult website Scammers using Google Ads, stolen blog articles, and a "popunder" ad scheme on adult websites pulled in more than $275,000 a day by generating millions of ad impressions every month.…