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Android malware on the rise, Google's OS is more "interesting" to cybercriminals than Apple iOS

TechSpot

One area focused on within the report is the current state of Android malware. "It It is an open source system with many vendors having their own Android versions (with their own vulnerabilities and patching problems)," Eset security awareness specialist Ondrej Kubovi? told The Register.

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The original Barcode Scanner app, seemingly mistaken for malware, is getting review-bombed

The Verge

One of the first Android apps — ZXing Team’s Barcode Scanner, an app that predates the first official release of Android itself — is currently getting review-bombed on the Google Play Store. And there’s just no motive, to make an app for 13 years just to stick malware in at the end is an implausibly long game,” he says.

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Google, like Samsung, is eavesdropping on your private conversations

CTOvision

If you use Google Chrome , you could be subject to eavesdropping by Google. Similar to what Samsung's TVs are doing, the Chromium browser listens to conversations in the vicinity of your laptop, PC, or tablet, and transmits it back to Google. Ostensibly, this is part of the " Google Now " voice activation feature of Chrome.

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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

Malvertising acts as a vessel for malware propagation. Scammers and malware operators are increasingly adept at mimicking popular brands in their ad snippets, which makes it problematic for the average user to tell the wheat from the chaff. These fake sites were promoted on Google and Bing search results.

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Google confirms: CVE-2023-5129 exposes WebP’s achilles’ heel

Dataconomy

CVE-2023-5129 initially appeared as a blip on the security radar, but as Google dug deeper, it turned out to be a critical threat, a security flaw affecting the Libwebp library, versions 0.5.0 Developed by Google, Libwebp is an open-source library that plays a vital role in encoding and decoding images in the WebP format.

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How to use WormGPT AI

Dataconomy

Engineered specifically for malevolent tasks, like crafting malware and executing exploits, WormGPT is a far cry from its peers, like ChatGPT or Google’s Bard. WormGPT has the potential to craft malware and set up phishing attacks, causing harm to people and organizations. Is WormGPT capable of instigating cyberattacks?

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WormGPT: The “unethical” ChatGPT is out

Dataconomy

WormGPT doesn’t have any safeguards to prevent it from responding to malicious queries, unlike ChatGPT or Google’s Bard. Godfather of AI leaves Google to talk about dangers of AI “This project aims to provide an alternative to ChatGPT, one that lets you do all sorts of illegal stuff and easily sell it online in the future.

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