Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list Summary Reports from Chinese infosec blog MXRN indicate a major data breach at Knownsec, a security company with ties…
What Is Adobe Firefly? Here’s How to Use This Powerful Generative AI Tool Summary Adobe Firefly is a web-based suite of generative-AI creative tools that brings dozens of models and…
Who’s watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map Summary Esra’a Al Shafei, a Mozilla fellow and long-time digital-rights activist, founded Surveillance Watch — an interactive map…
AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing Summary A new study led by the Oxford Internet Institute examined 445 large language model (LLM)…
Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones Summary Unit 42 researchers have uncovered a previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL that exploited a critical Samsung…
Microsoft Backs Massive AI Push in UAE, Raising Security Concerns Summary Microsoft, in partnership with UAE tech group G42, is helping to build the opening phase of a planned 5‑gigawatt…
‘Ransomvibing’ Infests Visual Studio Extension Market Summary A malicious Visual Studio Code extension, published under the name “susvsex,” openly advertised that it encrypted, zipped and uploaded files to a remote…
‘Landfall’ Malware Targeted Samsung Galaxy Users Summary Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 uncovered a commercial-grade Android spyware family named “Landfall” that targeted high-end Samsung Galaxy devices using…
Newly identified Android spyware appears to be from a commercial vendor Summary Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 uncovered LANDFALL, a “commercial grade” Android spyware campaign that ran for…
Surprise ‘tail’ found on an iconic galaxy may rewrite its history Summary The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s very first test image has revealed a previously unnoticed stellar stream — a…
