Google tests facial recognition technology for office security

WIRED learned this week that Amazon Web Services is investigating claims that AI search startup Perplexity may have violated cloud company rules by grabbing data from websites that try to protect themselves against scraping. The news comes after WIRED published an investigation last week into AI search chatbots' indiscriminate data scraping practices and questionable content generation. WIRED reached out to AWS about the matter, which led to the company looking into Perplexity's activities. Another WIRED investigation into Quora's Poe AI platform found that the platform downloaded entire articles from various publishers and shared the files with users, effectively circumventing paywalls.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced guilty pleas earlier this week in connection with a series of violent home invasions in which more than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured and kidnapped 11 people in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency.

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Concrete evidence is finally emerging in San Jose and New York City that AI gunshot detection systems are working well below their advertised accuracy, deepfake creators are re-recruiting victims of the GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking ring and hosting altered versions of their videos on the platform, and bureaucratic hurdles are making it harder for hospitals and other health care providers to recover from ransomware attacks and get back online.

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Google is rolling out a facial recognition system on its Kirkland, Washington campus to detect unauthorized people and block access to offices, according to a document about the plan seen by CNBC. Security cameras in Google's spaces are already collecting facial data and comparing it to employees' badge photos to try to identify people who are not legitimate or Google employees. If the system identifies a person of interest, Google's security and resilience services team will work to identify the intruder who may pose a security risk to Google people, products, or locations, according to the document. People who work or visit the Kirkland campus cannot opt ​​out of having their facial data collected by the system, but the data is collected for immediate use only and is not stored, the document said. Employees can also opt out of having Google store their badge images, adding that this cache of images will only be used to test the system. The document said the goal of the program is to keep employees and spaces safe and secure.

German cloud company Teamviewer acknowledged on Friday that it had suffered a cyberattack earlier this week. The company blamed the notorious Russian hacker group APT29 (also known as Cozy Bear and Midnight Blizzard) for carrying out the attack. In a statement, Teamviewer said its current investigation results indicate that the attack occurred on Wednesday, June 26, involving the credentials of a standard employee account within the company's corporate IT environment. The company later confirmed that the attack was limited to TeamViewer's internal IT environment and that its production environment, connection platform, and customer data were not affected.

Suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers, including a group known as ChamelGang, have deployed ransomware in dozens of high-profile attacks as a distraction while they conduct espionage operations on victim networks. Researchers from security firms SentinelOne, Recorded Future, and TeamT5 found evidence that attackers used the tactic in hacks of critical healthcare platforms in India and the Brazilian presidential palace, for example. Espionage actors are joining an increasingly disturbing trend of using ransomware in the final stages of operations for financial gain, confusion, distraction, misidentification, or evidence removal, the researchers wrote.

Evolve Bank and Trust, a financial company popular with fintech startups, confirmed on Wednesday that it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack and data breach that may affect its customers. Evolve is currently investigating a cybersecurity incident involving a known cybercrime ring that illegally obtained data and personal information of Evolve's retail banking customers and financial technology partner customers and published it on the dark web, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday. The ransomware gang known as LockBit recently posted data it claims was stolen from Evolve on a dark web leak site.

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