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Flawed Conference Abstract Spawns Headlines Blaming Produce for Lung Cancer
A non-peer-reviewed conference abstract presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting is driving headlines claiming fruits, vegetables, and
Gentlemen ransomware bolts SystemBC botnet onto 1,570-host attack toolchain
Check Point researchers traced a Gentlemen ransomware intrusion to a SystemBC command-and-control server running a botnet of more than 1,570 infected hosts, wit
Google Patches Prompt Injection RCE in Antigravity AI IDE
Google has shipped a patch for its Antigravity IDE addressing a prompt injection vulnerability that allowed attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution on dev
Identity Is the New Perimeter: Attackers Skip Exploits, Log In With Stolen Creds
Credential theft, session hijacking, and MFA fatigue have quietly overtaken traditional exploitation as the dominant intrusion path. Attackers don't need a CVE
Insider rot: Ransomware negotiators ran BlackCat attacks against their own clients
Angelo Martino, a former DigitalMint incident responder, pleaded guilty to running BlackCat ransomware operations against U.S. companies between April 2023 and
Lazarus-linked attackers drain $290M from KelpDAO via poisoned RPC nodes
KelpDAO, an Ethereum liquid restaking protocol, lost roughly 116,500 rsETH (about $293 million) on April 18 after attackers subverted the cross-chain verificati
MCP Design Flaw Turns AI Agent Tool Calls Into RCE Vectors
A design-level weakness in Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets attackers achieve remote code execution against systems that wire LLM agents to externa
Mexican Surveillance Firm Grupo Seguritech Pushes Into US Market
Grupo Seguritech, a Mexican surveillance vendor behind pervasive monitoring deployments like Plataforma Centinela in Ciudad Juárez, is moving into the United St
NGate Android malware swaps NFCGate for trojanized HandyPay to siphon NFC card data
A fresh NGate variant tracked by ESET is hijacking HandyPay, a legitimate Android NFC payment processor on Google Play since 2021, to capture card data the mome
NGate Malware Trojanizes Brazilian HandyPay App to Relay NFC Data and PINs
A fresh NGate campaign is targeting Brazilian banking customers by distributing a trojanized clone of HandyPay, a legitimate point-of-sale application. Once ins
NYT Builds Circumstantial Case That Adam Back Is Satoshi Nakamoto
A New York Times piece assembles a substantial body of circumstantial evidence pointing to cypherpunk Adam Back as the person behind the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudo
Pentagon Kills $8B GPS Ground Control Program After 16 Years of Failure
The US Space Force has terminated the Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX), ending a 16-year effort to build a modernized command and control system