A security flaw enabled hackers to take over Instagram accounts by tricking Meta AI support chatbot into adding an attacker-controlled email address and triggering a password reset.
The endgame for AI chatbots was always integration of targeted ads, but Meta plans to do more than make Meta AI just another arm of its internet-spanning data collection network. The plan is for the chatbot to eventually function as a shopping assistant that can search for products and put them into shopping carts.
A recent campaign of cyber attacks made new and novel use of the Claude AI chatbot in scanning VPN endpoints and automating multiple portions of the attack cycle, representing another step forward in the deployment of LLMs for malicious purposes.
Lenovo’s Lena is a fairly standard AI chatbot of the type seen at some company websites, offering to retrieve product information and answer customer service questions for visitors. What is different about this one is the relative ease with which it could be recruited for highly damaging actions.
The emergence of Venice.ai AI chatbot may mark the beginning of a new stage of the security race. Available for free via the "clear web," the service promises capabilities on par with ChatGPT and other popular models but with no guardrails or security restrictions in place.
The UK ICO has wrapped up a preliminary investigation into Snap's AI chatbot, and has indicated that it is failing to adequately address children's privacy risks. There are numerous concerns about AI chatbots that are not yet resolved, but children's privacy seems to have driven much of the early action from regulators.
Cybercriminals inserted malicious ads into Microsoft Bing Search AI chatbot to trick unsuspecting users into downloading trojanized software from spoofed domains.
After being informed of the planned launch of the AI chatbot in the EU, the DPC instructed Google to file a data protection impact assessment. The launch is waiting on Google to address privacy concerns.
Fortune 500 companies continue to demonstrate extreme wariness of AI chatbots and similar AI tools in the workplace, as Apple has banned employees from using ChatGPT on work devices.
Nearly every tech company with some sort of social platform is rushing to get their own AI chatbot in place. Snap users are expressing concern about how it interacts with children, the level of access it has to personal information, and overbearing chat interactions.
