{"id":3014,"date":"2025-05-05T15:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:32:51","slug":"the-ai-chatbot-cop-squad-is-here-lock-and-code-s06e09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zero.redgem.net\/?p=3014","title":{"rendered":"The AI chatbot cop squad is here (Lock and Code S06E09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Security Update News<\/h2>\n<h3>Update Information<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width:100%; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Title<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">The AI chatbot cop squad is here (Lock and Code S06E09)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Update ID<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">MALWAREBYTES:1B9AA29ED48FF3946F05F90666BA8A61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Type<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">malwarebytes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Published<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">2025-05-05T15:09:42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Last Updated<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">2025-05-05T15:09:42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Security Impact<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width:100%; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">CVSS Score<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">0.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Severity<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; color: #666666; font-weight: bold;\">NONE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; \">Attack Vector<\/th>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Affected CVEs<\/h3>\n<div style=\" padding: 15px; border: 1px solid #ddd; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<ul style=\"margin: 0; padding-left: 20px;\">\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Update Details<\/h3>\n<div style=\"; padding: 15px; border-left: 4px solid #4CAF50; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n_This week on the Lock and Code podcast_ \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeidi\u201d is a 36-year-old, San Francisco-born, divorced activist who is lonely, outspoken, and active on social media. \u201cJason\u201d is a shy, bilingual teenager whose parents immigrated from Ecuador who likes anime, gaming, comic books, and hiking.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of them is real. Both are supposed to fight crime.<\/p>\n<p>Heidi and Jason are examples of \u201cAI personas\u201d that are being pitched by the company Massive Blue for its lead product, Overwatch. Already in use at police departments across the United States, Overwatch can allegedly help with the identification, investigation, and arrest of criminal suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding exactly how the technology works, however, is difficult\u2014both Massive Blue and the police departments that have paid Massive Blue have remained rather secretive about Overwatch\u2019s inner workings. But, according to an investigation last month by 404 Media, Overwatch is a mix of a few currently available technologies packaged into one software suite. Overwatch can scan social media sites for alleged criminal activity, and it can deploy \u201cAI personas\u201d\u2014which have their own social media accounts and AI-generated profile pictures\u2014to gather intelligence by chatting online with suspected criminals.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Overwatch marketing deck obtained by 404 Media, the software\u2019s AI personas are \u201chighly customizable and immediately deployable across all digital channels\u201d and can take on the personalities of escorts, money launderers, sextortionists, and college protesters (who, in real life, engage in activity protected by the First Amendment).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the variety of applications, 404 Media revealed that Overwatch has sparked interest from police departments investigating immigration and human trafficking. But the success rate, so far, is non-existent: Overwatch has reportedly not been used in the arrest of a single criminal suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Today, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with 404 Media journalists and co-founders Emanuel Maiberg and Jason Koebler about Overwatch\u2019s capabilities, why police departments are attracted to the technology, and why the murkiness around human trafficking may actually invite unproven solutions like AI chatbots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody is going to buy that\u2014that if you throw an AI chatbot into the mix, that&#8217;s somehow going to reduce gun crime in Americ,&#8221; Maiberg said. &#8220;But if you apply it to human trafficking, maybe somebody is willing to entertain that because, well, what is the actual problem with human trafficking? Where is it actually happening? Who is getting hurt by it? Who is actually committing it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: <\/p>\n<p>> &#8220;Maybe there you&#8217;re willing to entertain a high tech science fiction solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tune in today to listen to the full conversation.<\/p>\n<p>_Show notes and credits:_  <\/p>\n<p>Intro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  <br \/>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License  <br \/>http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/  <br \/>Outro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>**Listen up\u2014Malwarebytes doesn\u2019t just talk cybersecurity, we provide it.**<\/p>\n<p>Protect yourself from online attacks that threaten your identity, your files, your system, and your financial well-being with our exclusive offer for Malwarebytes Premium for Lock and Code listeners.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/podcast\/2025\/05\/the-ai-chatbot-cop-squad-is-here-lock-and-code-s06e09\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 4px;\">View Advisory Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security Update News Update Information Title The AI chatbot cop squad is here (Lock and Code S06E09) Update ID MALWAREBYTES:1B9AA29ED48FF3946F05F90666BA8A61 Type malwarebytes Published 2025-05-05T15:09:42 Last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,8,34,12,115,13,33,7,11,5],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category_news","tag-cve","tag-cvss","tag-cvss-00","tag-exploit","tag-malwarebytes","tag-news","tag-none","tag-security","tag-tapic","tag-vulnerability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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