1,000+ Devs Lose Their Secrets to an AI-Powered Stealer
Summary More than 1,000 JavaScript developers were infected in a rapid supply-chain attack on the Nx build system on 26–27 August 2025. Malicious versions of Nx and several plug-ins delivered…
Akira, Cl0p Top List of 5 Most Active Ransomware-as-a-Service Groups
Akira, Cl0p Top List of 5 Most Active Ransomware-as-a-Service Groups Summary Flashpoint’s midyear 2025 ransomware recap shows a 179% rise in attacks versus H1 2024 and highlights five prolific RaaS…
Hackers Steal 4M+ TransUnion Customers’ Data
Hackers Steal 4M+ TransUnion Customers’ Data Summary TransUnion confirmed a data breach affecting the personal information of more than 4 million customers. The “cyber incident” occurred on 28 July 2025…
CISA, FBI, NSA Warn of Chinese ‘Global Espionage System’
CISA, FBI, NSA Warn of Chinese ‘Global Espionage System’ Summary US and allied agencies — including CISA, the FBI and the NSA — published a joint advisory describing a broad,…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, built by two independent Israeli researchers, uses prompts to a large language model (Anthropic’s…
An Audit Isn’t a Speed Bump — It’s Your Cloud Co-Pilot
An Audit Isn’t a Speed Bump — It’s Your Cloud Co-Pilot Summary This commentary by Ravi Sharma reframes internal audit as an active enabler of secure cloud transformation rather than…
Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool
Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool Summary Researchers used an AI screening tool to analyse roughly 15,000 open-access journals for signs of dubious publishing practice and flagged…
Why scientists are flocking to Substack
Why scientists are flocking to Substack Summary The article profiles why an increasing number of scientists are using Substack to publish directly to the public. It opens with epidemiologist Katelyn…
Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI
Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI Summary This Nature Podcast long read (audio) accompanies a feature exploring how scientists are trying to…
When will life expectancy reach 100? No time soon
When will life expectancy reach 100? No time soon Summary Recent analysis summarises new research showing that average life expectancy in high-income countries continues to rise but the pace of…