Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X in $45B Deal to ‘Unlock Immense Potential’

The merger will “combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent” of the two companies, according to Elon Musk. In particular, Grok AI is expected to expand on X. Continue reading Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X in $45B Deal to ‘Unlock Immense Potential’

X suffered a DDoS attack. Its CEO and security researchers can’t agree on who did it.

X’s wave of outages resembled a DDoS attack and Dark Storm Team, a prolific threat group specializing in such attacks, claimed responsibility.

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Trojans disguised as AI: Cybercriminals exploit DeepSeek’s popularity

Kaspersky experts have discovered campaigns distributing stealers, malicious PowerShell scripts, and backdoors through web pages mimicking the DeepSeek and Grok websites. Continue reading Trojans disguised as AI: Cybercriminals exploit DeepSeek’s popularity

No, that’s not the acting head of the Social Security Administration. That’s a former CISA employee.

As CISA removes anti-disinformation personnel, one of its own former employees has fallen victim to a case of mistaken identity.

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Smashing Security podcast #404: Podcast not found

The story of how hackers managed to compromise the US Government’s official SEC Twitter account to boost the price of Bitcoins, AI isn’t helping reduce the rife conspiracy theories inside classrooms, and is the funeral bell tolling for ransomware?

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