Unmasking Trickbot, One of the World’s Top Cybercrime Gangs
A WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang’s secrets, including the identity of a central member. Powered by...
Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links
For many people, Google is the go-to starting point when they need to find something on the web. With just a few keystrokes, the search engine can find virtually anything. The company also has many other tools to browse and organize the web, including the Chrome browser and YouTube. All these products and services fall under the umbrella of the company Alphabet. While the various departments are largely run separately, there is plenty...
The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests
The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners. Powered by WPeMatico
Putin’s Cinema Fund Rejects Movie Piracy, Fuming Cinema Boss Demands Barbie
If piracy had its own Olympics, Russian competitors would be among the favorites to bring home the gold, or so the stereotype dictates. Yet for the last 18 months, multiple threats to legalize piracy of Western movies have not only faltered, but have thus far reached no obvious conclusion. From former president Dimitry Medvedev who called for mass piracy out of spite, to reluctant cinema workers with no movies to screen but families...
OpenAI Asks Court to Dismiss Authors’ Copyright Infringement Claims
Artificial intelligence has the potential to make our lives more efficient, entertaining, and productive. There are potential downsides as well. From a copyright perspective, AI brings up some interesting questions. For example, can content created by an AI be copyrighted? And can an AI be trained on copyrighted works without limitation? Authors Sue OpenAI According to several authors, large language model training sets shouldn’t be...
