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Prosecutors charge 6 people for allegedly waging massive DDoS attacks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged six people for allegedly operating websites that launched millions of powerful distributed denial-of-service attacks on a wide array of victims on behalf of millions…

Microsoft digital certificates have once again been abused to sign malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has once again been caught allowing its legitimate digital certificates to sign malware in the wild, a lapse that allows the malicious files to pass strict security checks…

Only iPhones that can’t run iOS 16 are getting new iOS 15 updates

Enlarge / iPhones running iOS 15. (credit: Apple) As part of the barrage of operating system updates released earlier today, Apple published new iOS and iPadOS 15.7.2 updates that bring most of the…

Lensa AI app causes a stir with sexy “Magic Avatar” images no one wanted

Enlarge / A selection of male and female "Magic Avatars" generated by the Lensa AI app, including a beard cannot be contained. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Over the past week, the…

China bans AI-generated media without watermarks

Enlarge / An unmarked AI-generated image of China's flag, which will be illegal in China after January 10, 2023. (credit: Ars Technica) China's Cyberspace Administration recently issued regulations prohibiting the creation of AI-generated…

Effective, fast, and unrecoverable: Wiper malware is popping up everywhere

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Over the past year, a flurry of destructive wiper malware from no fewer than nine families has appeared. In the past week, researchers cataloged at least two more, both…

AI image generation tech can now create life-wrecking deepfakes with ease

Enlarge / This is John. He doesn't exist. But AI can easily put a photo of him in any situation we want. And the same process can apply to real people with just…

North Korean hackers once again exploit Internet Explorer’s leftover bits

Enlarge / APT37, a group believed to be backed by the North Korean government, has found success exploiting the bits of Internet Explorer still present in various Windows-based apps. (credit: Aurich Lawson |…

Adobe Stock begins selling AI-generated artwork

Enlarge / An AI-generated watercolor illustration, now eligible for inclusion in Adobe Stock. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Monday, Adobe announced that its stock photography service, Adobe Stock, would begin allowing…

No Linux? No problem. Just get AI to hallucinate it for you

Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play…