A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

The bottom line, says William Agnew, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the coauthors, is that “anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.” The researchers found thousands of instances of validated identity documents—including images of credit cards, driver’s licenses, passports, and birth certificates—as well […]

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Ethereum Just Approached $3,500. 3 Reasons This Leading Cryptocurrency Is Still a Buy

Cryptocurrencies are rounding into form. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, hit fresh all-time highs of more than $123,000 on July 14. The asset’s run has also sent a jolt into Ethereum (ETH 4.66%), which shot up to almost $3,500 per token on July 17 after having a difficult year so far. Ethereum […]

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Hackers Use GitHub Repositories to Host Amadey Malware and Data Stealers, Bypassing Filters

Jul 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Social Engineering Threat actors are leveraging public GitHub repositories to host malicious payloads and distribute them via Amadey as part of a campaign observed in April 2025. “The MaaS [malware-as-a-service] operators used fake GitHub accounts to host payloads, tools, and Amadey plug-ins, likely as an attempt to bypass web filtering […]

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