The article discusses how cyber criminals in South Africa are continuously evolving their tactics to exploit vulnerabilities, gain unauthorized access, and compromise sensitive information using advanced, persistent threats. The CEO of ESET Southern Africa, Carey van Vlaanderen, emphasizes the importance of threat intelligence in helping organizations prioritize their cybersecurity efforts amidst the prevalence of AI-driven cyber attacks.
With the rise of AI in mainstream applications, cyber criminals are increasingly using AI-enabled tools to automate hacking activities and lower technical barriers for attacks. ESET has identified campaigns targeting ChatGPT users and malicious domains mimicking legitimate names, showcasing the sophistication of modern cyber threats. Van Vlaanderen highlights the need for businesses to adopt multilayered protection technologies to combat prevalent online scams like crypto-currency romance schemes and BEC attacks.
moneycontrol.com 10month
Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug discovery platform that was spun out of Google's DeepMind in 2021, has raised external capital for the first time. The $600
How to level up your teaching with AI. Discover how to use clones and GPTs in your classroom—personalized AI teaching is the future.
Trump's Third Term? AI already knows how this can be done. A study shows how OpenAI, Grok, DeepSeek & Google outline ways to dismantle U.S. democracy.
Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months. "We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months," Altman wrote on X.