Critical Site Takeover Flaw Affects 400K WordPress Sites Summary A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-11833, CVSS 9.8) in the Post SMTP WordPress plugin (all versions up to and including 3.6.0) allows unauthenticated…
Biggest black-hole outburst ever seen records death throes of a star Article Date: 04 November 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03597-1 Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-025-03597-1/d41586-025-03597-1_51663736.jpg Summary Astronomers have confirmed the brightest black-hole flare…
Pro-Russian Hackers Use Linux VMs to Hide in Windows Summary Bitdefender, working with the Georgian CERT, has detailed how a Russia-aligned threat actor tracked as “Curly COMrades” compromises Windows endpoints…
Data brokers selling location info that can be used to track EU officials, report finds Summary A coalition of European newsrooms found that freely available datasets from data brokers contained…
Japan’s first female prime minister doesn’t call herself a feminist — but the country needs her to tackle sexism in science Summary Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister…
When will Africa have a Nobel prize in medicine? Summary African researchers have driven life‑saving advances — from vaccine development to genomic surveillance and public‑health interventions — yet no one…
Android Malware Mutes Alerts, Drains Crypto Wallets Summary Researchers from Cyfirma have identified a sophisticated Android banking Trojan tracked as Android/BankBot-YNRK, currently targeting users in Indonesia and possibly other parts…
Independent mechanisms of inflammation and myeloid bias in VEXAS syndrome Article Date: 03 November 2025Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09815-0Authors: Varun K. Narendra et al. Summary This Nature study uses somatic gene-editing models…
PhD training needs a reboot in an AI world Article meta Article Date: 03 November 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03572-w Article Image: Image link Author: Alex Sen Gupta (essay) Summary The…
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ Article Meta Article Date: 2025-10-31 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03575-7 Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-025-03575-7/d41586-025-03575-7_51634286.jpg Summary The US federal scientific enterprise has been hit by wide-ranging…
