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• The Conversation Style Is Overly Formal
• Refusal to Answer Phone Calls or Video Chats
• They’re Unable to Answer Complex or Probing Questions
• Attempts to Gain Access to Your Personal Data
• They Try to Redirect You to External Links
• Lack of Humor in Responses

Key Takeaways

• You can tell you’re chatting with an AI bot if the conversation sounds formal, lacks humor, or is devoid of critical thinking.
• Scammers might also use AI chatbots that try to spam you with links to external sites or try to get you to reveal your personal data.
• If the person on the other end refuses to get on a video chat or phone call, it could indicate you’re chatting with a bot.

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Google has fallen victim to its own ad platform, allowing threat actors to create fake Google Authenticator ads that push the DeerStealer information-stealing malware.For years, malicious advertising (malvertising) campaigns have targeted the Google search platform, where threat actors place ads to impersonate well-known software sites that install malware on visitors’ devices.

To make matters worse, threat actors have been able to create Google search ads that show legitimate domains, which adds a sense of trust to the advertisement.

In a new malvertising campaign found by Malwarebytes, threat actors created ads that display an advertisement for Google Authenticator when users search for the software in Google search.

What makes the ad more convincing is that it shows ‘google.com’ and “https://www.google.com” as the click URL, which clearly should not be allowed when a third party creates the advertisement.

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The Paris Olympic apps are part of massive eavesdropping exercises. Unsurprisingly, even the official Paris 2024 Olympics app is actively involved in collecting user data and sending it to advertisers.Paris Olympic apps aren’t even hiding their eavesdropping agendas

The Paris Olympics apps are eavesdropping in the name of security. Even the French capital has invested in AI video surveillance to effectively monitor huge swaths of spectators.

The biggest beneficiaries, however, are the app developers who have deployed dozens of platforms to help internet and smartphone users follow the Olympics. The official Paris 2024 Olympics app too is part of massive eavesdropping.

Interestingly, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) admits the Paris 2024 Olympics app collects personal data, builds user profiles, and shares data with advertisers. It is concerning to note that visitors to the Paris Olympics will mandatorily need to download and use the app.

App users have to allow access to get the “best experience”

[no mention of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation!]

Washington D.C. has been scrambling for years to find artificial intelligence experts to navigate a world where LLMs and AI models may supercharge every aspect of our lives. This week the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the anti-hacking arm of the Department of Homeland Security, announced it had named its first chief.CISA appointed Lisa Einstein as its first AI head on Thursday in an announcement it shared with Axios. Einstein comes from the think tank world and was already advising CISA on how to handle AI threats and helped them test AI cybersecurity tools for the White House.

Imagine the following scenario. You want to download Google Authenticator, run a search on Google for the company’s application, and click on the first link that appears.The link looks good even though it is listed as sponsored. It shows Google’s official site as the URL. When you check the advertiser, which you can on Google Search, you get confirmation that Google has verified the advertisers identity.

All good then? Not in the aforementioned case. If you would have downloaded the linked app, you would have installed malware-infested Authenticator application to your device. The application, which even came with a valid signature according to reports, installed the DeerStealer information-stealing malware on Windows devices.

Not the first case, likely not the last – Threat actors have managed to overcome the security systems of advertising companies such as Google numerous times in the past to plant malware ads on Google Search and elsewhere. We have reported on this numerous times already, for example here or here.

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