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DeepSeek AI’s Security Woes + Impersonations: What You Need to Know

Soon after the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek emerged to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini, it was forced offline when “large-scale malicious attacks” targeted its servers. Speculation points to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Security researchers reported that…
Nation State Backed Groups Using AI for Malicious Purposes

The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently published a new report “Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI,” which is well worth the read. The report shares findings on how government-backed threat actors use and misuse the Gemini web application. Although the…
Colorado’s AI Task Force Proposes Updates to State’s AI Law
Stemming from Colorado’s Concerning Consumer Protections in Interactions with Artificial Intelligence Systems Act (the Act), which will impose obligations on developers and deployers of artificial intelligence (AI), the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Impact Task Force recently issued a report outlining potential…
With Enough Human Contribution, AI-Generated Outputs May Be Copyright Protectable
After several months of delays, the U.S. Copyright Office has published part two of its three-part report on the copyright issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI). This part, entitled “Copyrightability,” focuses on whether AI-generated content is eligible for copyright…
Privacy Tip #430 – GrubHub Confirms Security Incident Through Third Party Vendor
If you are a GrubHub customer, read carefully. The app has confirmed a security incident involving a third-party vendor that allowed an unauthorized threat actor to access user contact information, including some customer names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and partial…
New Antitrust Guidance Provides Ground Rules for Labor Markets—Or Does It?
This post was co-authored by Antitrust + Trade Regulation lawyer Jennifer Driscoll and Managed Care + ERISA Litigation lawyer Stephanie J. Oppenheim
On January 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (collectively,…
New EPA Administrator, Same Freeze on EPA Activity

On January 29, 2025, Lee Zeldin was confirmed as the 17th Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator. After a week on the job, Zeldin continued to maintain several policies that had been put in place immediately after the Trump administration took…
CISA + FBI Issue Joint Advisory on Threat Actors Chaining Ivanti Vulnerabilities
On January 22, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint advisory related to previous vulnerabilities in the Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance, including an administrative bypass, a SQL injection, and…
Ethical Hacker Uncovers Vulnerability in Subaru Starlink Service

Ethical hackers identified an arbitrary account takeover flaw in the administrator portal for Subaru’s Starlink service, which could allow a threat actor to hijack a vehicle through a Subaru employee account. This vulnerability could allow a threat actor to remotely…