China Questions Security of AI Chips From NVIDIA, AMD
China Questions Security of AI Chips From NVIDIA, AMD Summary China has publicly challenged the security of advanced AI processors from US vendors Nvidia and AMD after the US partially…
How an AI-Based ‘Pen Tester’ Became a Top Bug Hunter on HackerOne
How an AI-Based ‘Pen Tester’ Became a Top Bug Hunter on HackerOne Summary XBOW researcher Brendan Dolan-Gavitt demonstrated at Black Hat USA how his team built an autonomous, AI-driven penetration-testing…
What the LockBit 4.0 Leak Reveals About RaaS Groups
What the LockBit 4.0 Leak Reveals About RaaS Groups Summary The May leak of LockBit’s 4.0 affiliate panel exposed thousands of chats, ransomware builds and wallet data, pulling back the…
Patch Now: Attackers Target OT Networks via Critical RCE Flaw
Patch Now: Attackers Target OT Networks via Critical RCE Flaw Summary Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have observed active exploitation of a critical unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE)…
Popular AI Systems Still a Work-in-Progress for Security
Popular AI Systems Still a Work-in-Progress for Security Summary Forescout tested 50 large language models (LLMs) for offensive-security tasks and found general-purpose models only partly useful. Commercial LLMs often identified…
Whispers of XZ Utils Backdoor Live on in Old Docker Images
Whispers of XZ Utils Backdoor Live on in Old Docker Images Summary Binarly’s Aug 12 research shows remnants of the notorious XZ Utils backdoor still exist in a number of…
Fortinet Products Are in the Crosshairs Again
Fortinet Products Are in the Crosshairs Again Summary Fortinet has disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in FortiSIEM (CVE-2025-25256) and a proof-of-concept exploit is already circulating in the…
North Korea Attacks South Koreans With Ransomware
North Korea Attacks South Koreans With Ransomware Summary A subgroup of DPRK’s Scarcruft (aka APT37), calling itself “ChinopuNK,” has launched a campaign against targets in South Korea that combines infostealers,…
Daily briefing: Lithium supplements reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice
Daily briefing: Lithium supplements reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice Summary Nature Briefing (07 August 2025) highlights a striking preclinical result: restoring the brain’s natural lithium levels with a supplement (lithium…
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them Summary This commentary, written by Indigenous scientists from Aotearoa (New Zealand), Canada, Australia and the United States, argues that diversity, equity and inclusion…