🦹 North Korea using ChatGPT to scam LinkedIn users

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1. 🦹 North Korea using ChatGPT to scam LinkedIn users

2. 🖼️ Musk in partnership talks with AI-image platform

3. 👗 Google rolls out “Shop with Google AI”

4. 👆 Fingerprints recreated by swiping noises

5. 🍟 OpenAI and Softbank in race to buy AI chip maker

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CYBER-ATTACKS

🦹 North Korea using ChatGPT to scam LinkedIn users 

Our Report: UN experts have discovered that North Korean hackers are leveraging ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) to launch intricate cyberattacks, specifically against American white-collar workers.

🔑 Key Points:

• Hackers are targeting US workers in sectors like cybersecurity, defense, and cryptocurrency on multiple platforms, with LinkedIn being their current favored platform.

• They’re using ChatGPT to create fake recruiter profiles and send targeted messages that build trust and trick users into revealing sensitive information or clicking on malicious links.

• It’s also suspected that these hacker groups are finding jobs in overseas IT companies and planting malicious codes on their software programs to steal cryptocurrencies.

• This comes after the National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported a daily average of 1.62M hacking attempts in South Korea last year, an increase of 36%.

🤨 Why you should care: This follows Mircosoft and OpenAI’s announcement (last week) that it had ‘disrupted’ five state-affiliated hacker groups from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran that were thought to be using ChatGPT to improve their cyber activities.

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SOCIAL MEDIA

🖼️ Musk in partnership talks with AI-image platform

• Musk is reportedly in conversations with AI-generated art platform, Midjourney, to form a potential partnership with X (formerly known as Twitter)

• Midjourney allows users to create unique images based on text prompts—similar to OpenAI’s DALLE-E—allowing X users to generate and share AI-powered images, directly on the platform.

• Images with additional context could improve accessibility for users with visual impairments and the partnership could also help to identify AI content on X, ahead of upcoming elections

• This movement by Musk signifies a broader trend of integrating AI-generated content into social media platforms to enhance user experience and engagement.

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RETAIL

👗 Google rolls out “Shop with Google AI” 

• Google has launched its “Shop with Google AI” feature to a handful of users with opt-in Search Generative Experience (SGE) accounts, through the Google Search app.

• The feature uses ML algorithms to analyze user preferences and browsing history and generates AI images of products they’re searching for, that align with their tastes and preferences.

• For example, if a user searches for a “dress” Shop with Google AI will generate images showcasing different dress styles, colors, and designs, aligned with previous browsing history.

• This level of personalization enhances the user’s experience and also increases the likelihood of conversion, driving business growth for retailers partnering with Google.

BIOMETRICS

👆 Fingerprints recreated by swiping noises

• US and Chinese researchers have discovered that fingerprints can be recreated from the sound a finger makes when swiping across a smartphone screen.

• They conducted test attacks using smartphones and chat-based apps (like Skype and FaceTime) that encourage swiping while the microphone is live.

• They could reconstruct up to 26.5% of partial fingerprints and 9.3% of full fingerprints in just five attempts, collecting enough fingerprint data to bypass device security checks.

• This is the first time AI has been leveraged to recreate biometric data, proving that organizations and individuals now need to be vigilant with their biometric data too.

AI HARDWARE

🍟 OpenAI and Softbank in race to buy AI chip maker 

• UK AI chip maker—Graphcore—is reportedly in talks with buyers (including OpenAI and SoftBank) over a sale that could value the business at over $500M.

• Graphcore makes AI hardware that rivals NVIDIA’s but—despite raising $700M—it’s now struggling after it was forced to close its China business due to US AI export controls.

• This coincides with reports that SoftBank is planning a $100B AI chip venture and OpenAI’s Sam Altman is in talks with investors to raise $7 trillion to build AI chip factories.

• However, it’s expected that the UK will try to protect its domestic semiconductor IP and supply chain, following the 2021 global chip shortage, so the sale could be problematic.

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