More than $2 billion in payments from 4,000 ransomware incidents reported to Treasury in recent years Summary Companies paid more than $2.1 billion to ransomware gangs from January 2022 to…
Trump plans executive order curbing state AI laws Summary President Donald Trump has announced he will sign an executive order to establish a “one rule” federal approach to artificial intelligence,…
US Treasury Tracks $4.5B in Ransom Payments since 2013 Summary The US Treasury’s FinCEN report (released 4 Dec 2025) aggregates Bank Secrecy Act reports and shows BSA-covered organisations reported $4.5…
Exploitation Activity Ramps Up Against React2Shell Summary React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) is a critical remote‑code‑execution deserialization flaw in React Server Components that was publicly disclosed in early December 2025. Exploitation began within…
Apache Issues Max-Severity Tika CVE After Patch Miss Summary The Apache Software Foundation has issued a new, maximum-severity CVE — CVE-2025-66516 (CVSS 10) — after an earlier advisory and patch…
193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting ‘violence-as-a-service’ Summary Europol-led investigators have arrested 193 suspects across Europe in a six-month operation tackling so-called “violence-as-a-service” — networks that recruit, groom or coerce…
Researchers track dozens of organizations affected by React2Shell compromises tied to China’s MSS Summary Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have confirmed that more than 30 organisations have…
The first global pandemic treaty — and the woman who made it happen Summary On 16 April in Geneva, WHO member states reached consensus on the draft text of the…
This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish Summary Yifat Merbl and her team at the Weizmann Institute discovered that the cell’s proteasome…
This science sleuth revealed a retraction crisis at Indian universities Summary Achal Agrawal, a former university researcher turned freelance data scientist, has exposed widespread research-integrity problems at Indian higher-education institutions.…
