Black Hat NOC Expands AI Implementation Across Security Operations Summary The Black Hat USA 2025 Network Operations Center (NOC), led by James Pope of Corelight, increased its use of AI…
ShinyHunters Tactics Now Mirror Scattered Spider Summary Researchers at ReliaQuest report growing overlap between two previously distinct cybercrime collectives — ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider — based on attack timing, shared…
How to Stay a Step Ahead of a Non-Obvious Threat Summary This commentary by Dirk Schrader highlights the growing risk of business logic vulnerabilities as organisations rapidly adopt cloud and…
Charon Ransomware Emerges With APT-Style Tactics Summary Trend Micro has documented the first known deployment of a new ransomware family called Charon, observed targeting public-sector and aviation organisations in the…
Popular AI Systems Still a Work-in-Progress for Security Summary New research from Forescout assesses 50 large language models (LLMs) for offensive-security tasks and finds general-purpose models are only partly useful…
Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants Summary US President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled ‘Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking’ that would shift control of…
Daily briefing: Political officials could control US federal science grants Summary This Nature Briefing (11 August 2025) highlights an expansive executive order from US President Donald Trump that would, if…
AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back Content summary This Nature news piece (Traci Watson, 12 August 2025) describes a growing problem on preprint servers: submissions that…
Trump’s chief science adviser faces a storm of criticism: what’s next? Summary Michael Kratsios, confirmed as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and given…
Margaret Boden obituary: cognitive scientist who explored how machines might emulate human imagination Summary Margaret Ann Boden, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, has died aged 88.…
