Google Unveils RETVec – Gmail’s New Defense Against Spam and Malicious Emails

Nov 30, 2023NewsroomMachine Learning / Email Security Google has revealed a new multilingual text vectorizer called RETVec (short for Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer) to help detect potentially harmful content such as spam and malicious emails in Gmail. “RETVec is trained to be resilient against character-level manipulations including insertion, deletion, typos, homoglyphs, LEET substitution, and…

North Korea’s Lazarus Group Rakes in $3 Billion from Cryptocurrency Hacks

Nov 30, 2023NewsroomCryptocurrency / Cyberattacks Threat actors from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector as a major revenue generation mechanism since at least 2017 to get around sanctions imposed against the country. “Even though movement in and out of and within the country is heavily restricted, and its…