Cloudflare Holds Back the Tide on 11.5Tbps DDoS Attack Summary Cloudflare says it automatically mitigated hundreds of hyper‑volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in recent weeks, including a UDP flood that…
Russia’s APT28 Targets Microsoft Outlook With ‘NotDoor’ Malware Summary Researchers at Lab52 (S2 Grupo) have uncovered a new Outlook-focused backdoor called “NotDoor” used by APT28 (Fancy Bear). NotDoor is delivered…
Japan, South Korea Take Aim at North Korean IT Worker Scam Summary Japan, South Korea and the United States have stepped up coordination after North Korean operatives posed as IT…
Iran MOIS Phishes 50+ Embassies, Ministries, Int’l Orgs Summary Researchers tie a short but wide-reaching phishing campaign to the Iran-linked APT known as “Homeland Justice” (associated with Iran’s Ministry of…
Summary A Nature Briefing summarises a major new analysis that maps epigenetic changes across the adult human lifespan and highlights several other short science items. The headline item, “An epigenetic…
How the brain’s amygdala reacts when making decisions to avoid losses Summary Researchers report that people explore unfamiliar options more when trying to avoid losses than when pursuing gains. Recordings…
Brain tumours in mice grow more slowly when starved of key amino acid Summary Researchers report that many glioblastoma tumours import the amino acid serine from their surroundings instead of…
A way to determine how partial charges of atoms in a molecule are distributed Summary Researchers have developed an experimental approach to measure atomic partial charges within molecules by exploiting…
Marsquakes indicate that the inner core of the red planet is solid, not liquid Summary NASA’s InSight mission deployed a seismometer to Mars in December 2018 and recorded marsquakes for…
Flies evolved a shock-absorber tissue used during embryonic development Summary Two new studies in Nature identify the function of the cephalic furrow, a fold of tissue that separates the head…
