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One of the worlds most notorious hackers could finally be in custody. Bleeping Computer reports that ransomware affiliate Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev also known as Wazawaka, Uhodiransomwar, m1x and Boriselcin has been arrested. Prosecutors have not confirmed if Matveev is under arrest, but reports indicate that Matveev may be the hacker in Russian custody. The Russian state news agency (translated on BlueSky by the Center for Strategic Researchs Oleg Shakirov) reported that the Kaliningrad Interior Ministry and Russian prosecutors sent a case of a programmer accused of creating a malicious program to court. An anonymous source with knowledge of the matter confirms that Matveev is the programmer. Matveev is also wanted on charges in the US for launching attacks on US law enforcement agencies and healthcare organizations as far back as 2020. The US State Department is offered a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture in May of last year when the Department of Justice filed criminal charges against him. If hes in Russian custody, the US may not get a chance to prosecute him. Matveev, a Russian national, has links to ransomware hacking groups such as Hive, LockBit and Babuk. Hes linked to a number of attacks including an April 2021 lockout attack on the systems of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. More than a year later, he allegedly helped launch a Hive ransomware attack on a healthcare NGO in New Jersey. Attacks from LockBit are particularly destructive and egregious. In late 2022, the group infected the computer systems of 1,400 victims including a Holiday Inn hotel in Turkey. The Treasury Departments Office of Foreign Assets Control also placed sanctions against Matveev for his role in several ransomware attacks on US services and critical infrastructure targets. The Justice Department believes Matveev has extracted more than $75 million from his victims in ransom payments.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/russia-arrests-ransomware-attacker-wazawaka-202134431.html?src=rss
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A coalition of Canadian news outlets sued OpenAI on Friday for copyright infringement. The joint lawsuit accuses the company of capitalizing and profiting from the unauthorized use of their content for ChatGPT. The legal action was filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The plaintiffs include CBC/Radio-Canada, Postmedia, Metroland, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press. Theyre seeking punitive damages from OpenAI, payments for any profits the ChatGPT creator made from using their news articles and a ban on further use of their content. OpenAI regularly breaches copyright and online terms of use by scraping large swaths of content from Canadian media to help develop its products, such as ChatGPT, the media outlets wrote in a statement (via CBC News). OpenAI is capitalizing and profiting from the use of this content, without getting permission or compensating content owners. In a statement to Engadget, OpenAI noted its news content partnerships and opt-out process while voicing a belief that its practices are covered under fair use. Hundreds of millions of people around the world rely on ChatGPT to improve their daily lives, inspire creativity, and solve hard problems, an OpenAI spokesperson wrote. Our models are trained on publicly available data, grounded in fair use and related international copyright principles that are fair for creators and support innovation. We collaborate closely with news publishers, including in the display, attribution and links to their content in ChatGPT search, and offer them easy ways to opt-out should they so desire. OpenAIs new search engine is built into ChatGPT. It crawls websites and points users toward them for additional info. The company has said it doesnt use that data for crawling or training its models. The Canadian news outlets have joined a long list of companies, individuals, and other organizations that have sued the ChatGPT maker for unauthorized training on their work. That list includes (among others) The New York Times, The Intercept, Raw Story, a group of nonfiction authors and the comedian Sarah Silverman. Early this year, OpenAI wrote to a UK committee that it would be impossible to train todays leading AI models without using copyrighted materials. This month, the NYT filed a court declaration as part of its lawsuit, stating that OpenAIs engineers accidentally erased evidence of the companys AI training data. OpenAI has argued that using publicly available online content falls under the fair use doctrine. The Canadian plaintiffs objected to that view, writing that journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI using other companies journalism for their own commercial gain is not. Its illegal.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/canadian-news-organizations-sue-openai-for-chatgpt-copyright-infringement-190806649.html?src=rss
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Amazon workers across the world have gone on strike for Black Friday, according to the labor advocacy group UNI Global Union. The protests, dubbed Make Amazon Pay, are scheduled to last until December 2. Strikes are happening everywhere, from the US to Australia and Nepal. There are also demonstrations happening in more than 20 countries over labor abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy. The demonstrators are petitioning the company, which is worth around $2.2 trillion, for increased wages, better working conditions and the permission to form unions. Amazon doesnt particularly care for unions. #MakeAmazonPay sagen diese Woche Gewerkschaftsaktive aus weltweit mehr als 20 Ländern zum #BlackFriday der auf dem Rücken der Arbeiter:innen ausgetragen wird. #Solidarität gibt es dafür auch von den starken @_verdi Vertrauensleuten aus dem Hamburger Hafen der @HHLA_Group pic.twitter.com/O8MptYXrdh ver.di Amazon Niedersachsen-Bremen (@verdiAmazon_NDS) November 29, 2024 This includes thousands of workers in Germany, across several cities, and hundreds in New Delhi. Employees from Indias capital city are protesting after the company allegedly mistreated workers during a massive heat wave earlier this year, in which people reportedly began fainting due to heat stroke. However, Amazon sent a statement after that saying that it complies with Indian law and that theres nothing more important than the safety and well being of the workers." #MakeAmazonPay Day begins! Amazon workers in Jantar Mantar, Delhi rally to demand minimum pay, decent working conditions & recognition of Amazon workers union @AiwaInd pic.twitter.com/rBUKd7DV9Z UNI Global Union (@uniglobalunion) November 29, 2024 The Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and Citizen's Action will also hold protests in multiple cities across France and garment workers are demonstrating in Bangladesh. The strikes and associated protests could slow down holiday deliveries a bit, according to ABC News. This is, of course, the entire point of a strike. This is the fifth straight year of Make Amazon Pay actions, which always start on Black Friday. The aim of the movement is to hold Amazon accountable around the world by targeting the busiest holiday shopping weekend. To that end, Amazon represented nearly 20 percent of worldwide Black Friday transactions in 2023, with more than $170 billion in holiday sales. While billionaire Bezos tours the world on his $500m yacht, Amazon workers in 20+ countries are rising up this Black Friday to demand fair wages, union rights & climate action. Amazon must pay its fair share & respect workers. I stand with #MakeAmazonPay https://t.co/NmX1Sc1F66 Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) November 27, 2024 "Amazon's relentless pursuit of profit comes at a cost to workers, the environment and democracy," said Christy Hoffman, general secretary of UNI Global Union. We stand united in demanding that Amazon treat its workers fairly, respect fundamental rights and stop undermining the systems meant to protect us all. Amazon has a different take on things, writing in a statement that the organizers are being intentionally misleading and continuing to promote a false narrative. The company also crowed that it has created more than 1.5 million jobs around the world and that it provides a modern, safe and engaging workplace. Modern and safe? Amazon was responsible for more than half of all serious warehouse injuries in the US in 2022. Let me state that again. Amazon accounted for more than half of these incidents and every other company combined accounted for the remaining 47 percent. This was reported more than a year after the company promised to spend $300 million on improving workplace safety. However, Amazon recently announced a major investment, to the tune of $2.2 billion, to increase pay for fulfillment and transportation employees in the US. Thats good news, but is only around one quarter of what the company spent on major investments in the AI company Anthropic. Amazon has invested a total of $8 billion in Anthropic. https://t.co/k2vM7Ozbc2 Observer (@observer) November 22, 2024 Make Amazon Pay was originally launched in 2020 by the aforementioned UNI Global Union an Progressive International. The organizations say it has steadily grown each year, with this year's protests drawing support from over 30 unions, environmental organizations and civil society groups.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/amazon-workers-across-the-globe-are-on-strike-for-black-friday-174745422.html?src=rss
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