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Fake AI Tools Used to Spread Noodlophile Malware, Targeting 62,000+ via Facebook Lures
Threat actors have been observed leveraging fake artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools as a lure to entice users into downloading an information stealer malware dubbed Noodlophile. “Instead of relying on traditional phishing or cracked software sites, they build convincing AI-themed platforms – often advertised via legitimate-looking Facebook groups and viral social media campaigns,”
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Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collection
Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users’ personal location and maintaining their facial recognition data without consent. The $1.375 billion payment dwarfs the fines the tech giant has paid to settle similar lawsuits brought by other U.S. states.…
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Cantwell, Colleagues Blast GOP for Proposing to Gut Funding for Meals on Wheels, Head Start, and Safety Net Programs to Fund Tax Cuts for Billionaires
Nearly 50,000 seniors in WA rely on Meals on Wheels and 33,000 low-income families could lose TANF assistance under GOP budget
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Small and scrappy businesses may fuel downtown Portland’s comeback
Portland’s rise some 25 years ago coincided with the same commitment to, and from, small businesses that’s occurring today.
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Portland Center Stage Artistic Director Marissa Wolf on why the theater needs urgent support
Wolf said PCS is not walking back its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, even though some donors walked away.
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BPA spurns PGE, PacifiCorp on key energy market move
Bonneville Power Administration formalizes decision to join Markets+.
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1st Security Washington expands commercial lending in Portland metro
The bank, headquartered in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, has held a presence in the state with Oregon-based employees for the last 15 years.
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BREAKING: 7,000-Device Proxy Botnet Using IoT, EoL Systems Dismantled in U.S. – Dutch Operation
A joint law enforcement operation undertaken by Dutch and U.S. authorities has dismantled a criminal proxy network that’s powered by thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) and end-of-life (EoL) devices, enlisting them into a botnet for providing anonymity to malicious actors. In conjunction with the domain seizure, Russian nationals, Alexey Viktorovich Chertkov, 37, Kirill…
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Restaurant roundup: New vegan Asian Night Market, Gado Gado alum’s new Balkan restaurant
The newest addition to Portland’s night market events is one from Veganizer, a vegan food event organizer, that will act as a fundraiser for APANO, one of Oregon’s longest standing Asian grassroots advocacy organizations.
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3 Oregon hotels named ‘best of the best’ by Tripadvisor
The three Oregon businesses are from the Willamette Valley’s wine country and the High Desert.
