Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond’s OpenAI-powered cloud – claim Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI services – ultimately to generate deepfake smut videos of celebrities and others.… READ MORE HERE…

FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump’s call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.… READ MORE HERE…

Federal agents, open up … your browsers and see if you recognize any of these wallets The FBI has officially accused North Korea’s Lazarus Group of stealing $1.5 billion in Ethereum from crypto-exchange Bybit earlier this month, and asked for help tracking down the stolen funds.… READ MORE HERE…

Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity Computer scientists have found that fine-tuning notionally safe large language models to do one thing badly can negatively impact the AI’s output across a range of topics.… READ MORE HERE…

Boffins poked around inside censorship engines for years before Beijing patched hole Smart folks investigating a memory-dumping vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (GFW) finally released their findings after probing it for years.… READ MORE HERE…

244M purloined passwords added to Have I Been Pwned thanks to govt tip-off A tip-off from a government agency has resulted in 284 million unique email addresses and plenty of passwords snarfed by credential-stealing malware being added to privacy-breach-notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).… READ MORE HERE…