As reported by Wired, Gmail announced today that it has been testing the use of machine learning to identify malicious documents sent to its users. With 300 billion attachments per week the addition of this machine leaning increased the catch rate by 10% in a week. The article also quoted Bursztein, a representative of Gmail: "Machine learning does amazing things … [Read more...]
Creepy App Tracks its Users, Leaks its Database
As reported by TechCrunch, an app made by ClevGuard called KidsGuard stalks spouses, employees, and children. ClevGuard advertises the app for this purpose as while highlighting the apps stealth capabilities. Lots of these types of apps, called “stalkerware,” exist but this one’s crummier than the rest. The app copies data off of the target’s phone and takes … [Read more...]
Emotet Evolves to Gain the Wi-Fi Attribute
A recent addition to the Emotet botnet, found by Binary Defense, enables this malware to spread through Wi-Fi networks. This differs from previous versions of Emotet where it only targeted local wired networks. The Emotet botnet started off as a banking trojan in 2014. Early on, it spread by email and would resend itself to its victims’ contact lists. Later, … [Read more...]
Is Clearview AI Scraping of Google and Facebook Karma?
As reported by Techspot, in an ironic twist Google and Facebook looked into stopping Clearview AI, a startup that scrapes the Internet for faces, from scraping their websites. Clearview AI claims to use these faces to create a tool for law enforcement agencies to identify perpetrators and victims of crimes. Goggle sent a cease and desist but Facebook held back, possibly due to … [Read more...]
Unpatched Flaws Could Leave ConnectWise MSPs at Risk
ConnectWise provides a management platform that helps Managed Service Providers (MSPs), resellers, and other IT solutions providers remotely monitor, manage, and automate the IT technologies they deploy at their customers’ sites. Recently, ConnectWise patched multiple vulnerabilities in their ConnectWise Control products. Unfortunately, the patch failed to resolve some of these … [Read more...]
