Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
Tech Xplore

Reliably detecting and clearly explaining deepfake images

Artificial intelligence can now generate images that are virtually indistinguishable from real ones. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation ...
Tech Times

Microsoft Pulls 119 Malicious Edge Extensions Hiding Malware in Images

StegoAd Microsoft Edge extensions malware affected up to 2.6 million users after the company removed 119 add-ons that hid ...
Unite.AI

DeepKeep Uncovers ‘InkJect,’ a New AI Attack That Hides Malicious Prompts Inside Images

As enterprises rapidly embrace multimodal AI capable of understanding both text and images, security researchers are discovering that these powerful new capabilities introduce equally sophisticated ...

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
Tech Xplore

Short training helps people spot AI faces in the battle against deepfake fraud

Humans have been successfully trained to spot AI-generated faces in a study led by researchers at the Australian National ...
JournalofAccountancy

A guide to fighting AI-fueled AP/AR fraud

The accounts payable and accounts receivable functions (AP/AR) have long been targeted for fraud, but widely accessible artificial intelligence (AI) is making business scams more convincing, more ...