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Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, is pictured at its headquarters building on June 24, 2020 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images)

Officials seize 53 DDoS-for-hire domains in ongoing crackdown

Operation PowerOFF’s latest globally coordinated action identified more than 75,000 alleged cybercriminals. Officials warned each of them to stop jamming up traffic.
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A photo taken on March 31, 2023 in Manta, near Turin, shows a computer screen with the home page of the artificial intelligence OpenAI web site, displaying its chatGPT robot. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP) (Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Severe’ bug in ChatGPT’s API could be used to DDoS websites

The vulnerability, described by a researcher as “bad programming,” allows an attacker to send unlimited connection requests through ChatGPT’s API.
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