The Canadian government plans to ban Flipper Zero and similar devices after tagging them as tools thieves can use to steal cars.  The Flipper Zero is a portable and programmable pen-testing tool that helps experiment with and debug various hardware and digital devices over multiple protocols, including RFID, radio, NFC, infrared, and Bluetooth.

At least 18 hospitals in Romania were recently knocked offline after a ransomware attack took down their healthcare management system.  The Hipocrate Information System (HIS) used by hospitals to manage medical activity and patient data was targeted over the weekend and is now offline after its database was encrypted.  The incident is under investigation by IT specialists, including cybersecurity experts from the National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC), and the possibilities for recovery are being assessed.

ExpressVPN recently disabled split tunneling on its Windows clients to prevent an issue where DNS requests were not properly directed to its servers.  The issue, introduced in May 2022 in version 12.23.1 of ExpressVPN, resulted in DNS requests remaining unprotected in certain conditions.  Normally, when users connect to ExpressVPN, their DNS requests are sent to the company's servers.

Kevin Fu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University specializing in cybersecurity, has discovered a way to eavesdrop on most modern cameras. The technique, called EM Eye, which is short for Electromagnetic Eye, can capture video from another person's camera through walls in real-time. Fu and his team tested EM Eye on 12 different types of cameras, including smartphone cameras, dash cams, and home security cameras. The results vary depending on how far away one must be to eavesdrop on these various devices.

Cybersecurity experts from the University of East Anglia and the University of Kent call for more attention to criminals creating their own Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots for hacking and scams. Malicious variants of Large Language Models (LLMs), the technology that drives AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, are emerging. WormGPT and FraudGPT are examples that can create malware, identify security flaws in systems, provide advice on how to scam people, support hacking, and more.

The University of Albany (UAlbany) will participate in a new national research consortium aimed at supporting and demonstrating approaches to developing safe and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established the US AI Safety Institute (AISIC), which will lead the US government's AI safety and trust efforts, specifically in evaluating and developing guardrails for advanced AI models.