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An image supposedly showing former US president Donald Trump sitting with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and a young girl was almost certainly created using Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

The picture has been shared across Threads, and over 7,200 times on X (formerly known as Twitter) in recent days.

Where does the image come from?

There are several clues in the picture which indicate it was likely generated using AI tools, especially in the slightly larger version that shows more of the ‘background’. These include Mr Trump only appearing to have one leg, while Epstein seems to have neither of his legs and looks like he is emerging from the sofa. 

A young…

Jun 19, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / Cryptocurrency

A threat actor who goes by alias markopolo has been identified as behind a large-scale cross-platform scam that targets digital currency users on social media with information stealer malware and carries out cryptocurrency theft.

The attack chains involve the use of a purported virtual meeting software named Vortax (and 23 other apps) that are used as a conduit to deliver Rhadamanthys, StealC, and Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), Recorded Future’s Insikt Group said in an analysis published this week.

“This campaign, primarily targeting cryptocurrency users, marks a significant rise in macOS security threats and reveals an expansive network of malicious applications,” the cybersecurity company noted, describing markopolo as “agile,…

According to a supposed screenshot circulating on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), the Guardian has published an article about alien bacteria dying from bird flu on Mars. 

However, this is not a real article.

The image resembles a Guardian web page, with the headline: “First case of alien bacteria dying from bird flu recorded on Mars”.

This is followed by a subheading which reads: “Virus may have already killed other undescovered [sic] alien life across several local planets, possibly spreading across the universe”. 

Full Fact could not find any such article on the Guardian’s website or through a wider internet search. 

The Guardian also told Full Fact the screenshot “is not and has never been an article or headline published by the…

Some attackers use online meeting services as bait for malware. Researchers at Zscaler found fake Skype, Zoom and Google Meet websites that were used by threat actors to spread Remote Access Trojans – RAT for short.

Zscaler’s ThreatLabZ team warns about fake online meeting sites that distribute various malware families. Already at the beginning of December 2023, the researchers discovered a threat actor who creates fake Skype, Google Meet and Zoom websites to spread malware in order to spread remote access Trojans such as SpyNote RAT to Android users and NjRAT and DCRat to Windows users . These pages keep appearing in new versions.

🔎 The attack chain and execution flow for Android and Windows campaigns (Image: Zscaler).

Deceptively real web addresses as a trap

The malware actor…

Cybersecurity researchers from ESET found a handful of malicious Android apps that were spying on people and stealing sensitive information from their mobile devices.

In a press release shared with TechRadar Pro earlier this week, the researchers said that a new threat actor group, which they dubbed Virtual Invaders, was active from late 2021.