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Apr 27, 2024 6:30 AM


SECURITY NEWS THIS WEEK: SCHOOL EMPLOYEE ALLEGEDLY FRAMED A PRINCIPAL WITH
RACIST DEEPFAKE RANT

Plus: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get
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Controversial gunshot-detection company ShotSpotter has deployed more than
25,000 microphones across 170 cities worldwide. This week, WIRED and South Side
Weekly revealed the company may continue to provide gunshot data to police in
cities even after contracts have ended. Internal emails seen by the publications
suggest ShotSpotter sensors may have stayed online despite law enforcement deals
having expired, raising questions about what will happen to 2,500 microphones in
Chicago when its contract runs out at the end of the year.

Elsewhere, Change Healthcare finally admitted to paying a ransom to the AlphV
hackers, also known as BlackCat, that extorted the medical company. Weeks ago,
WIRED revealed the attackers were paid $22 million, one of the largest
ransomware payments ever. However, in a statement this week the company admitted
for the first time that it paid the ransom as part of its effort “to do all it
could to protect patient data from disclosure.” Some of that data still found
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creating artwork for major Hollywood studios. A misconfigured North Korea cloud
server, discovered at the end of last year, contained thousands of animation
files, notes, and working documents for productions of shows that stream on
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SCHOOL PRINCIPAL FRAMED USING AI VOICE DEEPFAKE

In January, an Instagram account in Baltimore, Maryland, posted an alleged audio
recording of local school principal Eric Eiswert making racist and antisemitic
comments. Baltimore County Public Schools quickly opened an investigation into
the incident. However, this week, a former athletic director at Pikesville High
School was arrested after police said he used artificial intelligence software
to create the fake audio clip of Eiswert. The audio included comments about
“ungrateful Black kids” and disparaging remarks about the Jewish community.

Dazhon Darien, the former staff member, was arrested after being stopped in
possession of a gun at an airport when officials saw there was an outstanding
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that Darien was charged with disrupting school activities and stalking. The fake
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Police reports, the Banner says, indicate that the audio clip had a “profound”
impact on the school principal. “It not only led to Eiswert’s temporary removal
from the school but also triggered a wave of hate-filled messages on social
media and numerous calls to the school,” police reports said.



Voice-cloning technology, which can fall under the broader banner of deepfake
technology, has rapidly improved within the last year. Cloning tools can
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GENERAL MOTORS STOPS DRIVING SURVEILLANCE, FOLLOWING PRIVACY COMPLAINTS

Your car knows a lot about you—from where and how you drive, to your weight and
how you sit. This week, following a series of revelations from New York Times
reporter Kashmir Hill, General Motors announced it will end its “Smart Driver”
program and unenroll all customers. Until the reports from the Times, GM was
sharing data with data brokers LexisNexis and Verisk, which shared it with
insurers and led to high payments for some people. The OnStar Smart Driver
program had been designed to promote safer driving, GM said. However, many
people were not aware they had been enrolled in the system. Ten lawsuits have
been filed so far about the Smart Driver program and how it shared data.


GOOGLE DELAYS KILLING COOKIES—AGAIN

In January 2020, Google said it would remove third-party cookies from Chrome
within two years—following Safari, Brave, Firefox, and other browsers in
eradicating the tracking technology. It’s now April 2024 and the company has
delayed the change for a third time, saying it’ll happen in 2025. Google’s
proposed cookie replacement has faced scrutiny from competition and privacy
regulators in the UK, with critics saying cookies are just being replaced by
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Google’s ad business.


SAMOURAI WALLET FOUNDERS ARRESTED OVER $2 BILLION UNLAWFUL TRANSACTIONS

Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, the founders of crypto-mixing
service Samourai Wallet, were charged by US prosecutors this week for running an
unlicensed money transfer business and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The company processed $2 billion in “unlawful transactions” and “facilitated
more than $100 million in money laundering,” according to Damian Williams, the
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and other
investigators. The charges can carry a maximum of 20 years each. The move comes
as US prosecutors try to clampdown on crypto mixing services that may be used to
hide funds or allow illicit behavior. Mixers Bitcoin Fog, Helix, and Tornado
Cash have all faced action in recent years.


CHINESE KEYBOARD VULNERABILITIES COULD REVEAL TYPING

New research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab this week revealed
vulnerabilities in eight Chinese keyboard apps that, if exploited, could allow
everything typed to be intercepted. Up to a billion people may be impacted, the
researchers say. They tested apps from major technology companies and phone
makers, including Baidu, Honor, Huawei, Samsung and Tencent. “Most of the
vulnerable apps can be exploited by an entirely passive network eavesdropper,”
they researchers write, adding that most of the impacted companies fixed the
vulnerabilities when they were reported.






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