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The Web Security

This guy has spent two years hunting fake job listings on LinkedIn, and found 60,000 of them

Big quote: Verified profiles, company pages, and polished job listings are being used to lure job seekers into scams that can cost them money or expose their personal information. Jay Jones, a Chicago-area job seeker who calls himself The Profiler, has made it his mission to find them. Since being laid off from an advertising role in late 2023, Jones says he has helped get nearly 60,000 fake job listings removed from the internet, most of them from LinkedIn. He has also flagged about 7,000 profiles that he believes were used in job scams.
Full story By Skye Jacobs,
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Microsoft Security

Microsoft takes down EvilTokens phishing service that used AI to mine hacked inboxes for payment fraud

The takeaway: Cybercriminals used a subscription service called EvilTokens to steal access to Microsoft accounts and mine victims' inboxes for payment information, internal reporting lines and trusted business contacts. Microsoft said the platform's AI-assisted tools compromised 12,000 customer accounts at 10,000 organizations over several months.
Full story By Skye Jacobs,
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Security AI

Researchers found malware that uses four different AI chatbots to run itself, no human hacker needed

The malware shows how LLMs are moving from an attacker productivity tool into attack infrastructure
Crystal ball: Researchers at Cisco Talos have found a Windows malware tool that uses several large language models to help decide what to do on a compromised machine. Its discovery points to a still-limited but growing group of AI-enabled malware that is moving beyond code generation and phishing support.
Full story By Skye Jacobs,
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Gaming Microsoft

Xbox lays off 268 more people as Activision takes over Halo and Bethesda absorbs Obsidian

In a nutshell: The next round of Microsoft's previously announced layoffs includes major studio consolidations and possibly more closures. The Halo franchise just got its biggest shakeup in years as the Xbox manufacturer seeks to cut costs and the number of moving parts. Meanwhile, the fates of Ninja Theory and Arkane Lyon hang in the balance.
Full story By Daniel Sims, 18 comments
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