Popular AI Systems Still a Work-in-Progress for Security Summary Forescout tested 50 large language models (LLMs) on vulnerability research (VR) and exploit development (ED) tasks. Commercial models handled many simple…
Whispers of XZ Utils Backdoor Live on in Old Docker Images Summary Binarly researchers found that the notorious XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) still appears in a number of old Docker…
Fortinet Products Are in the Crosshairs Again Summary Fortinet has disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in FortiSIEM (CVE-2025-25256) — an OS command injection that affects FortiSIEM versions…
North Korea Attacks South Koreans With Ransomware Summary Researchers have identified a new campaign from ChinopuNK, a subgroup of the DPRK-linked Scarcruft (APT37), that combines phishing-driven espionage tools with a…
Oestrogen defends against kidney damage caused by iron-dependent cell death Summary Acute kidney injury (AKI) carries high morbidity and few targeted therapies. Epidemiological data show premenopausal women are less likely…
Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera Summary The EyeRIS light-field camera system records near real-time 3D visual data in situ, capturing the structure and biomechanics…
Is gravity quantum? Experiments could finally probe one of physics’ biggest questions Summary This Nature feature surveys a growing experimental push to determine whether gravity is a quantum phenomenon. The…
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Summary A News & Views piece by Igor Bargatin highlights a new study (Schafer et al., Nature) that demonstrates centimetre-scale perforated structures…
Summary A genome sequence and a single-cell atlas for an arrow worm (chaetognath) species reveal that bursts of gene emergence, duplication and loss — rather than slow, incremental change —…
Just how bad will climate change get? The only way to know is to fund basic research Summary Tim Palmer argues that the largest remaining scientific uncertainty about future global…
