As artificial intelligence continues advancing at a rapid pace, criminals are increasingly using AI capabilities to carry out sophisticated scams and attacks. Technologies that synthesize realistic fake media, known as deepfakes, are among the newest tools being deployed to enable fraud. A finance clerk working at a Hong Kong branch of a large multinational corporation recently fell victim to an elaborate scam utilizing deepfake technology to impersonate senior executives and swindle more than
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A few years ago, Red Sky Alliance announced a new service named “Rocket Jot.” The service allowed a user to enter some/any topic terms, and in less than a minute, a complete written report was delivered in Word format to the user. The report often sounded a little like “robot speech” but was still complete and could be the basis for a “better” report with some grammar checking and additional sentences. It also delivered a complete list of sources used for the report. We offered the service
In 2015, ISIS conducted a series of coordinated attacks around Paris that killed 130 people and wounded nearly 500 more. Two years later, 39 people were killed in an ISIS attack on an Istanbul nightclub during the early hours of New Year’s Day. This week, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a pair of cases arising from those attacks. The justices’ decisions in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh could reshape legal liability for some of the nation’s largest technology compan
