Silver Fox APT Blurs the Line Between Espionage & Cybercrime Summary A Chinese threat actor known as Silver Fox is conducting attacks that mix traditional state-style espionage with opportunistic, financially…
Utilities, Factories at Risk From Encryption Holes in Industrial Protocol Summary At DEF CON 33 researcher Tom Tervoort revealed multiple weaknesses in OPC UA, the open-source industrial communications protocol. Although…
Echo Chamber, Prompts Used to Jailbreak GPT-5 in 24 Hours Summary Researchers at NeuralTrust say they cracked OpenAI’s GPT-5 within 24 hours of its release using a context-poisoning method they…
REvil Actor Accuses Russia of Planning 2021 Kaseya Attack Summary A convicted REvil affiliate, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, has claimed the Russian government was instrumental in planning the July 2021 supply-chain ransomware…
BlackSuit Ransomware Takes an Infrastructure Hit From Law Enforcement Summary US and international law enforcement carried out a coordinated operation that disrupted parts of the BlackSuit (also known as Royal)…
UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model Summary The UK Royal Society will convert eight of its ten journals to the “subscribe to open” (S2O) model from 2026.…
The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system Summary The article examines growing strain on the peer-review system across journals and funders as submissions rise but the reviewer pool…
Highly efficient deep-blue LED devices made using hybrid copper–iodide compound Summary A non-toxic, robust and solution-processable copper–iodide-based hybrid semiconductor has been designed that emits deep-blue light with nearly 100% emission…
Nuclear-weapons risks are back — and we need to act like it Summary Ankit Panda argues that nuclear weapons are not a Cold War relic but an active and growing…
High levels of circular DNA made as immune cells develop increases the risk of leukaemia relapse Summary This News & Views piece (Karla K. Rodgers) discusses new findings reported by…
