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A smart contract security marketplace Code4arena appears to be the latest victim of a SIM swap attack on X. An X account for Code4 arena , a smart contract auditing platform, was compromised allowing a hacker to publish a scam post luring people to believe an airdrop was endorsed by a venture capital firm. In an X post that appeared on Nov. 27, 2023 the hacker published a post announcing an airdrop of ARENA tokens endorsed by Paradigm, a San Francisco-based crypto venture capital investment firm. Code4Arena twitter got hacked Do not click any links pic.twitter.com/yIoRGascQt — Defenders Dao (@defendersdao) November 28, 2023 The scale of the hack is not immediately clear as no public statements from Code4arena have been made so far. According to external reports, however, the incident was the result of a SIM-swap attack. At the time of writing, the post is deleted, but crypto.news was able to independently verify the authenticity of the original post. You might als...

AI ner adtester-cont AI ner-110" data-ez-name="watcher_guru-medrectangle-3"> Elon Musk says Microsoft illegally tr AI ned their AI software using Twitter Data. In recent tweets, he alleges that the technology corporation has done this, ripped off Twitter ’s database, and sold its Data to other parties. JUST IN: Elon Musk says Microsoft illegally trained their AI using Twitter data, threatens to sue. — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) April 19, 2023 This comes shortly after Microsoft dropped the social media platform from its advertising platform, refusing to pay the application’s API fees. The API provides data on the kinds of conversations occurring on the platform, which helps researchers understand what the online world is talking about. Source: Current Affairs Elon Musk has previously shared concerns over Microsoft, in particular to the company’s access to Chat GPT technology. He has voiced his strong opinion on both Microsoft and AI technology...

An AI chatbot alleged Ripple can secretly control its blockchain through an undisclosed backdoor in the network's code and has been ridiculed by the firm's CTO. Ripple’s chief technology officer has responded to a conspiracy theory fabricated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT, which alleges the XRP Ledger (XRPL) is somehow being secretly controlled by Ripple. According to a Dec. 3 Twitter thread by user Stefan Huber, when asked a series of questions regarding the decentralization of Ripple’s XRP Ledger, the ChatGPT bot suggested that while people could participate in the governance of the blockchain, Ripple has the “ultimate control” of XRPL. Asked how this is possible without the consensus of participants and its publicly-available code, the AI alleged that Ripple may have “abilities that are not fully disclosed in the public source code.” At one point, the AI said “the ultimate decision-making power” for XRPL “still lies with Ripple Labs” and the company could mak...