US offers $10 million bounty for members of Iranian hacking gang

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A US $10 million reward is being offered to anyone who has information about four members of an Iranian hacking group.

The US government’s Rewards for Justice initiative is making the reward available for information about four men believed to be members of Shahid Hemmat, a hacking gang backed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC).

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Watermark for LLM-Generated Text

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Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with knowledge of the key can detect those choices. What makes this hard is (1) how much text is required for the watermark to work, and (2) how robust the watermark is to post-generation editing. Google’s version looks pretty good: it’s detectable in text as small as 200 tokens.

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