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Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new sophisticated malware called CoffeeLoader that's designed to download and execute secondary payloads. The malware, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz, shares behavioral similarities with another known malware loader known as SmokeLoader.  "The purpose of the malware is to download and execute second-stage payloads while evading

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new sophisticated malware called CoffeeLoader that's designed to download and execute secondary payloads. The malware, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz, shares behavioral similarities with another known malware loader known as SmokeLoader.  "The purpose of the malware is to download and execute second-stage payloads while evading Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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Long gone are the days when a simple backup in a data center was enough to keep a business secure. While backups store information, they do not guarantee business continuity during a crisis. With IT disasters far too common and downtime burning through budgets, modern IT environments require solutions that go beyond storage and enable instant recovery to minimize downtime and data loss. This is

Long gone are the days when a simple backup in a data center was enough to keep a business secure. While backups store information, they do not guarantee business continuity during a crisis. With IT disasters far too common and downtime burning through budgets, modern IT environments require solutions that go beyond storage and enable instant recovery to minimize downtime and data loss. This is [email protected]

Generative AI (genAI) companies are starting to do real damage to the internet. 

One of the internet’s main purposes is to serve as a global network for free and open communication and information exchange between scientists, academics, and the public and to be an uncensorable place for the expression of free speech.

(One of the most dangerous threats to the internet is recent bipartisan support for repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which, if actually repealed, would seriously harm free speech online. That’s an issue you can read about on the EFF website.)

The purest expression of the internet’s purpose is the world of Open Access (OA) websites. These are sites that provide free and unrestricted access to scholarly information such as research articles, books, data, and educational resources. Open Access allows users to get content without technical barriers. It provides legal permissions for reading, downloading, copying, distributing, and reusing content with proper attribution. And it’s part of the broader Open Science movement. 

But now, OA sites are under attack. AI bots, or AI crawlers, constantly scanning for data to add to training data sets for genAI chatbots and related services, are overwhelming OA websites and others, straining resources and leading to outages. 

Of course, there are many different kinds of bots, which collectively generate more traffic on the internet than humans. DesignRush says that bots now account for 80% of all web visits. 

Bot types include search engine bots, SEO and analytics bots, social media bots, malicious bots, and web scraping bots. 

But AI crawlers are by far the fastest-growing kind of bot. According to DesignRush, the crawlers from one company — OpenAI’s GPT bots — now account for about 13% of all web traffic and make hundreds of millions of requests per month.

Their mission is to take data and essentially replace the original source. For example, instead of using Google to find scientific articles on a subject, the AI crawlers seek to take those articles and present a new “article” for the user cobbled together from many articles and many sites, incentivizing the user to ignore the source sites and get their information from the chatbots.

To oversimplify the problem, harvesting more data from OA sites makes chatbots faster and more convenient to use. However, the harvesting itself makes the OA sites slower and harder to use. 

While much digital ink has been spilled decrying the taking of content, it’s also important to know that the chatbot companies are overwhelming many of the sites they’re copying content from, much like a daily DDOS attack. 

Different kinds of bots affect different types of websites indifferent ways, but they can have a huge impact on OA sites. 

Fighting back

Cloudflare is now deliberately poisoning large language model (LLM) training data, fighting back against the AI companies that are taking data from websites without permission. (The company offers content delivery networks, cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and web performance optimization.)

Here’s the problem Cloudflare is trying to solve: Companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity have been accused of harvesting data from websites, ignoring robots.txt files on the sites (originally designed to tell search engines which files were off-limits for indexing), and taking data anyway. In addition to these big names, all kinds of smaller, less legitimate companies are capturing data without permission from the rightful owners. 

Cloudflare’s solution is a feature available to all customers called “AI Labyrinth.” The program redirects incoming bots to its own special-purpose websites, which are filled with huge quantities of factually accurate but irrelevant (irrelevant to the target website) AI-generated information. 

In addition to wasting the time of the companies in control of the bots, AI Labyrinth is also a honeypot, enabling Cloudflare to add those companies to a blacklist. 

The idea is somewhat similar to the “Nightshade” project from the University of Chicago; it was designed to protect artists’ work by poisoning image data. The project enabled digital image artists to download Nightshade for free and convert the pixels of their artwork in a way that made people see the same image but AI models to completely misread what the pictures looked like.

One way to stop AI crawlers is via good old-fashioned robots.txt files, but as noted, they can and often do ignore those. That’s prompted many to call for penalties such as infringement lawsuits, for doing so. 

Another approach is to use a Web Application Firewall (WAF), which can block unwanted traffic, including AI crawlers, while allowing legitimate users to access a site. By configuring the WAF to recognize and block specific AI bot signatures, websites can theoretically protect their content. More advanced AI crawlers might evade detection by mimicking legitimate traffic or using rotating IP addresses. Protecting against this is time-consuming, forcing the frequent updating of rules and IP reputation lists — another burden for the source sites. 

Rate limiting is also used to prevent excessive data retrieval by AI bots. This involves setting limits on the number of requests a single IP can make within a certain timeframe, which helps reduce server load and data misuse risks.

Advanced bot management solutions are becoming more popular, too. These tools use machine learning and behavioral analysis to identify and block unwanted AI bots, offering more comprehensive protection than traditional methods.

Lastly, advocacy and policy changes are being developed to make sure content creators have more control over how their work is used.

In the meantime, something needs to be done about the impact of AI crawlers on OA websites, which offer some of the best sources of information on the internet both to people and to LLM-based chatbots. 

While the legality or acceptability of simply taking content is argued online, in the courts and in government, we can’t let those same companies essentially sabotage, attack, and crush the same sites they’re taking from while the debate rages on.

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QWERTY, QWERTY, QWERTY. QWERTY.

Oh — hi there! Sorry for the slightly nonsensical greeting. I’ve been thinking a lot about keyboards this week, y’see, and how that trusty ol’ QWERTY surface has evolved in our lives.

Also, saying “QWERTY” over and over again is surprisingly fun to do. Go ahead and try it. I’ll wait.

Back? Cool. So, about that QWERTY contemplation: ‘Twas a time not so long ago that our QWERTY interactions on the mobile-tech front revolved almost entirely around actual physical keys. (Drooooooid, anyone?) Then, even when we started relying on on-screen QWERTY surfaces, we were hunting and pecking and doing an awful lot of correcting.

I remember when Google bought out a now-forgotten promising Android keyboard project called BlindType. BlindType’s entire premise was that it was smart enough to figure out what you were trying to type, even when your fingers didn’t hit all the right letters.

The concept seemed downright revolutionary at the time — which is funny now, of course, ’cause that feels like such a common and expected feature in the land o’ Android keyboards. But my goodness, have we come a long way.

These days, you can absolutely type like a clumsy caribou and still see your thoughts come out mostly the way you’d intended. You can seamlessly switch between tapping and swiping, too, and you can even speak what you want to write with surprisingly decent reliability (…most of the time).

But when it comes to Google’s Gboard keyboard, your options for intelligent text input don’t end there. In addition to its many useful shortcuts and shape-shifting form choices, Gboard has some out-of-sight options for advanced text interactions that’ll save you time and make your days significantly easier.

They aren’t things you’ll use all the time, in place of the now-standard sloppy-tappin’, wild-swipin’, and hopeful-speaking methods. Rather, they’re specific tools you’ll use alongside those other Android text input options — like smart supplements for the especially enlightened among us.

Check ’em out for yourself and see which of these Gboard goodies are either new to you or maybe just gems you’ve gotten out of the habit of using.

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Gboard Android trick #1: The on-demand scan

First up is a super-handy way to import text from the real world and then use it as a starting point for whatever it is you’re typing.

It’s all too easy to overlook or forget, but Gboard has a simple built-in trick for snagging text from a monitor, document, or anything else around you and then importing it directly into your current text field.

Just find the icon that looks like a document with arrows on its corners — either in Gboard’s top row or in the menu of options that comes up when you tap the four-square menu button in the keyboard’s upper-left corner. (And remember: You can always change what’s in that Gboard top row by touching and dragging any icons in that full menu area and placing ’em in whatever position you want.)

Tap that bad boy, point your phone at the text in question — and hey, how ’bout that?!

Scanned words, in a text field and ready — with precisely three taps in Google’s Gboard Android keyboard.

JR Raphael, IDG

You’ve got words from the real world right in front of you — ready to write around or edit as you see fit.

Gboard Android trick #2: Undo (whew!)

While we’re thinking about that bar at the top of your Google-scented Android keyboard, give your future self a gift that keeps giving by digging up the recently added Gboard Undo button.

The button does exactly what you’d expect: With a single swift tap, it empowers you to undo any keyboard-related action you’ve taken — be it an accidental backspace, an errant overwriting, or even just the unintentional typing of an unflattering sentence.

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JR Raphael, Foundry

All you’ve gotta do is uncover that Undo option — then shift it into a prominent position for easy ongoing access. Just open up that main Gboard menu once more, by tapping the four-square button in the keyboard’s upper-left corner, then look for the newly present Undo button within the screen that comes up.

Undo? We do! (Woohoo.)

JR Raphael, Foundry

Press and hold your finger onto that button, then drag it up into one of the primary spots in the keyboard’s upper row.

It’ll then always be there and ready, one tap away — whenever the need arises.

Gboard Android trick #3: Write right

Few mere mortals realize it, but in addition to tapping, swiping, and talking, you can also enter text into any field on Android with some good old-fashioned handwriting on your fancy phone screen.

It’s an interesting option to keep in mind for moments when you feel like your own scribbly scrawling might be more efficient than any other text input method.

This one takes a little more legwork to get going the first time, but once you do that, it’ll never be more than a quick tap away:

• First, head into Gboard’s settings by tapping the four-square menu icon in the keyboard’s upper-left corner and then tapping the gear-shaped Settings option in the full Gboard menu.
• Select “Languages” followed by the Add Keyboard button. Type “English (US)” (or whatever language you prefer), then make sure “Handwriting” is active and highlighted at the top of the screen.
• Tap the Done button to apply the changes.

Now, make your way to any open text field to pull up Gboard, and you should be able to either press and hold the space bar or hit the newly present globe icon next to it to toggle between the standard keyboard setup and your snazzy new handwriting recognition system.

And once you’ve got that handwriting canvas open, all that’s left is to write, write, write away and watch Google’s virtual genie translate your illegible squiggles into regular text almost instantly.

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JR Raphael, IDG

As you can see above, it works even if your handwriting resembles the harried scrawls of a clumsy caribou. (No offense intended to my caribou comrades.)

Gboard Android trick #4: Quick clips

One of my all-time favorite Gboard tricks is the keyboard’s intelligent integration of the Android system clipboard — and some incredibly helpful tricks that come along with that.

Look for the clipboard-shaped icon either in the keyboard’s top row or within the main Gboard menu to get started. The first time you tap it, you might have to activate the system (via the toggle in the upper-right corner of its interface) and also grant Gboard permission to access your system clipboard. You may also need to mosey back into the Gboard settings to find the “Clipboard” section and enable all the options there to get every piece of the puzzle up and running.

Once you do, though, good golly, is this thing amazing. It’ll automatically show every snippet of text and any images you’ve copied recently, for one-tap inserting into whatever text field you’re working in — and it’ll show your recently captured screenshots for the same purpose, too.

Gboard’s clipboard integration makes it easy to find anything you’ve copied and insert it anywhere.

JR Raphael, IDG

Perhaps most useful of all, though, is the Gboard clipboard’s capability to store commonly used items and then make ’em readily available for you to insert anytime, anywhere. You could use that for email addresses, physical addresses, Unicode symbols, snippets of code, or even just phrases you find yourself typing out often in Very Important Work-Related Emails™.

Whatever the case may be, just copy the item in question once, then pull up the Gboard clipboard and press and hold your finger onto the thing you copied. Tap the “Pin” option that pops up, and poof: That text (or image) will be permanently stored in the bottom area of your Gboard clipboard for easy retrieval whenever you need it.

Pinned items in the Gboard clipboard are like your own on-demand scratchpad for easy inserting anywhere.

JR Raphael, IDG

As an extra bonus, Gboard also now syncs your pinned clipboard data and continues to make any pinned items available on any Android device where you sign in.

Gboard Android trick #5: Your personal editor

When you’re banging out a Very Important Business Email And/Or Document™ on your phone, it’s all too easy to mix up a word or inadvertently accept an errant autocorrect. We’ve all been there — and all had the same ducking reaction — right?

You may not always have a second set of human (or even caribou) eyes to look over your words whilst composing on the go, but Gboard’s recently added proofreading feature can at least give you some second layer of assurance before you hit that daunting Send button.

To find it, tap the four-square menu icon in Gboard’s upper-left corner and look for the Proofread button — with an “A” and a checkmark on it.

Tap that bad boy and tap it good, and in a split second, Gboard will analyze whatever text you’ve entered and offer up suggestions to improve it.

Need a quick confirmation that your text makes sense? Gboard’s proofreading feature’s got your back.

JR Raphael, IDG

Not bad, Gboard. Not bad. You is clearly the one who is gooder at typings today.

Gboard Android trick #6: The translation station

Last but not least in our text input improvement list is a serious time-saver and communication-booster, and that’s the Gboard Android app’s built-in translation engine.

Hit that four-square menu icon in your keyboard’s upper-left corner once more, find the Translate button, and tap it — then select whatever languages you want and type directly into the Gboard translate box.

Gboard will translate your text in real-time and insert the result, in whatever language you selected, directly into whatever text field you had selected.

Any language, anytime, with Gboard’s on-demand translation system.

JR Raphael, IDG

Pas mal, eh? 

Keep all these advanced input tricks in mind, and you’ll be flyin’ around your phone’s keyboard like a total typing pro — with or without a caribou at your side.

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An Android malware family previously observed targeting Indian military personnel has been linked to a new campaign likely aimed at users in Taiwan under the guise of chat apps. "PJobRAT can steal SMS messages, phone contacts, device and app information, documents, and media files from infected Android devices," Sophos security researcher Pankaj Kohli said in a Thursday analysis. PJobRAT, first

An Android malware family previously observed targeting Indian military personnel has been linked to a new campaign likely aimed at users in Taiwan under the guise of chat apps. "PJobRAT can steal SMS messages, phone contacts, device and app information, documents, and media files from infected Android devices," Sophos security researcher Pankaj Kohli said in a Thursday analysis. PJobRAT, firstRavie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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