Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals Summary Microsoft has launched Azure HorizonDB, a fully distributed PostgreSQL-compatible database service designed to compete with hyperscaler and third-party…
Here is the formatted newsletter: Opening Shot: The Silent Trojans The term “silent Trojans” refers to a concerning cybersecurity threat lurking in organizations’ networks and systems. Just like the infamous…
China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’ Summary MI5 has issued an espionage alert warning that Chinese intelligence officers are using fake recruitment agents…
Measles makes a comeback: four charts show where and how Article Date: 18 November 2025Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03769-zArticle Image: https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-025-03769-z/d41586-025-03769-z_51710754.jpg Summary A sharp resurgence of measles has hit North America in…
Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query Summary Cloudflare suffered a major outage after a permissions change on a ClickHouse…
Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters Summary Security researchers at Oligo Security have uncovered an ongoing global campaign — dubbed ShadowRay 2.0 — that abuses internet-facing Ray clusters to build a…
Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters Summary Malicious actors are exploiting internet-exposed Ray clusters to run a self-replicating botnet called ShadowRay 2.0, according to Oligo Security. The campaign, active since at…
Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters Summary Malicious actors have been running a global campaign called “ShadowRay 2.0” that weaponises exposed Ray clusters into a self-replicating botnet. The campaign exploits CVE-2023-48022…
Iran-Nexus Threat Actor UNC1549 Takes Aim at Aerospace Summary Google Cloud’s Mandiant researchers report that an Iran‑nexus espionage actor tracked as UNC1549 — with overlaps to IRGC‑linked activity such as…
Cloud Break: IoT Devices Open to Silent Takeover Via Firewalls Summary Researchers Jincheng Wang and Nik Xe will present a proof of concept at Black Hat Europe showing a new…
