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Dec 02, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Regulatory Compliance / Online Safety
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to …
Vulnerability management is a core component of every cybersecurity strategy. However, businesses often use thousands of software without realising it (when was the last time you checked?), and …
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Dec 02, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Mobile Security / Vulnerability
Google on Monday released monthly security updates for the Android operating system, including two vulnerabilities that it said have …
Norway is the world’s largest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon and a top exporter of seafood, while the United States remains the largest importer of these products, according to the Food and …
“MIT hasn’t just prepared me for the future of work — it’s pushed me to study it. As AI systems become more capable, more of our online activity will be carried out by artificial agents. That raises …
Advancements in battery innovation are transforming both mobility and energy systems alike, according to Kurt Kelty, vice president of battery, propulsion, and sustainability at General Motors (GM). …
Researchers worldwide rely on open-source technologies as the foundation of their work. To equip the community with the latest advancements in digital and physical AI, NVIDIA is further expanding its …
The AI browser wars are coming to a desktop near you, and you need to start worrying about their security challenges.
For the last two decades, whether you used Chrome, Edge, or Firefox, the …
Banning VPNs This is crazy. Lawmakers in several US states are contemplating banning VPNs , because…think of the children!
As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy …
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Dec 01, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Hacking News / Cybersecurity
Hackers aren’t kicking down the door anymore. They just use the same tools we use every day — code packages, cloud accounts, …
A threat actor known as ShadyPanda has been linked to a seven-year-long browser extension campaign that has amassed over 4.3 million installations over time.
Five of these extensions started off as …
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Dec 01, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Surveillance / National Security
India’s telecommunications ministry has reportedly asked major mobile device manufacturers to preload a government-backed …
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Dec 01, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Malware / Threat Intelligence
The threat actor known as Tomiris has been attributed to attacks targeting foreign ministries, intergovernmental organizations, and …
A new Android malware named Albiriox has been advertised under a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model to offer a “full spectrum” of features to facilitate on-device fraud (ODF), screen …
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Nov 30, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Hacktivism / Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog to …
A Swiss lawyer and former executive of Mossack Fonseca, the embattled Panamanian law firm at the center of ICIJ’s Panama Papers
investigation, will face court in Germany next year, according to news …
Prompt Injection Through Poetry In a new paper, “ Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models ,” researchers found that turning LLM prompts into poetry …
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Nov 28, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Supply Chain Attack / Malware
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have continued to flood the npm registry with 197 more …
Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Neon Squid Found on Israeli Beach A meter-long flying neon squid ( Ommastrephes bartramii ) was found dead on an Israeli beach. The species is rare in the Mediterranean. …
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Nov 28, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Malware / Vulnerability
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain …
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Nov 28, 2025 **
The Hacker News
Enterprise Security / Threat Detection
As IT environments become increasingly distributed and organizations adopt hybrid and remote work at scale, traditional …
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Nov 28, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Email Security / Enterprise Security
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cross-tenant blind spot that allows attackers to bypass Microsoft Defender for …
Black Friday is leveling up. Get ready to score one of the biggest deals of the season — 50% off the first three months of a new GeForce NOW Ultimate membership. That’s GeForce RTX 5080-class power in …
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Nov 27, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Web Security / Zero Trust
Microsoft has announced plans to improve the security of Entra ID authentication by blocking unauthorized script injection attacks …
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Nov 27, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Malware / Social Engineering
The threat actor known as Bloody Wolf has been attributed to a cyber attack campaign that has targeted Kyrgyzstan since at least June …