Hackers Are Sophisticated & Impatient — That Can Be Good Summary Ensar Seker outlines a pragmatic approach to ransomware negotiations by treating modern attackers as professional, opportunistic and time‑pressed adversaries.…
Divergent evolutionary strategies pre-empt tissue collision in gastrulation Summary This Nature paper (Dey et al., 2025) shows that a transient epithelial fold called the cephalic furrow (CF) is a cyclorrhaphan…
Jaguar Land Rover Shuts Down in Scramble to Secure ‘Cyber Incident’ Summary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) shut down parts of its IT systems after detecting a “cyber incident” that severely…
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour Summary The International Brain Laboratory pooled standardised recordings to produce a public, brain-wide electrophysiological dataset from mice performing a perceptual decision-making…
Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks Breached via Salesloft Drift Summary A widespread supply-chain compromise of the Salesloft Drift marketing SaaS has led to downstream breaches affecting major security vendors, including Zscaler…
A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage Summary This Nature paper presents a spatially explicit, precautionary estimate of how much CO2 can safely be stored in sedimentary basins worldwide.…
WordPress Woes Continue Amid ClickFix Attacks, TDS Threats Summary Recent campaigns continue to exploit vulnerable and malicious WordPress plug-ins to compromise sites and monetise their traffic. The Israel National Digital…
DNA2 enables growth by restricting recombination-restarted replication Summary This Nature study defines why the DNA2 helicase/nuclease is essential for eukaryotic cell proliferation. Using a combination of fission yeast genetics and…
Amazon Stymies APT29 Credential Theft Campaign Summary Amazon’s threat intelligence team discovered and disrupted a watering‑hole credential theft campaign run by APT29 (also tracked as Midnight Blizzard, Nobelium, Cozy Bear).…
Inside a mosquito factory Summary There’s a large facility in Curitiba, Brazil, mass-rearing millions of mosquitoes — roughly producing one kilo of mosquito eggs per week — to fight mosquito-borne…
