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US government vaccine hub, Nvidia events page abused in cyberattack spewing out AI slop
- Nvidia events page and US government vaccine hub among those targeted in a cyberattack.
- Nvidia's events page showed explicit and AI-generated content resulting from the hijacking.
- Over 62,000 AI-generated articles were posted on the Nvidia page with inaccuracies.
- US HHS domain providing vaccine advice also defaced in a similar manner.
- The AI-generated content did not have a consistent theme.
- Spam pages directed users to a 'nonsense SEO spam page' at stocks.wowlazy[.]com.
- Cybercriminals hijacked the websites but without deploying malware for profit.
- The spam content included explicit as well as mundane information.
- Discovery of the spam campaign occurred during a search for 'best Portland cat cafes.'
- There was no indication of malware or infostealers being part of the attack.
- SEO is being utilized by cybercriminals to reach a wider audience.
- Mitigation strategies include disabling push notifications from unknown sites and cautious link-clicking.
- TechRadar Pro approached CDC, NPR, Stanford, and Nvidia for comments without responses yet.
- Cybercriminals are leveraging SEO to promote fake AI tools with malware.
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