WhatsApp Bug Anchors Targeted Zero-Click iPhone Attacks Summary Attackers exploited a WhatsApp vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177, CVSS 5.4) that allowed processing of content from an arbitrary URL on a target device. Combined…
Russia’s APT28 Targets Microsoft Outlook With ‘NotDoor’ Malware Summary Researchers at Lab52 (S2 Grupo) have identified a new Outlook backdoor used by the Russian state-sponsored group APT28 (aka Fancy Bear)…
Cloudflare Holds Back the Tide on 11.5Tbps DDoS Attack Summary Cloudflare reports it autonomously mitigated hundreds of hyper-volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, including a UDP flood that peaked at about…
Hacked Routers Linger on the Internet for Years, Data Shows Summary Emily Austin, a principal security researcher at Censys, found several hundred Ubiquiti routers still displaying “hacked” banners in Internet…
Flies evolved a shock-absorber tissue used during embryonic development Summary Two new studies reported in Nature (Dey et al. and Vellutini et al.) resolve a long-standing mystery about the cephalic…
Japan, South Korea Take Aim at North Korean IT Worker Scam Summary Japan, South Korea and the United States convened a joint forum in Tokyo on 26 August to combat…
Ancient DNA clarifies the early history of the Slavs Summary This News & Views piece discusses a new Nature paper by Gretzinger et al. that uses ancient DNA to examine…
This is the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’: its goal is to stop dengue Summary The Wolbito do Brasil facility in Curitiba is the world’s largest factory producing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes…
Summary Glioblastoma, the most aggressive adult brain cancer with a five-year survival below 5%, relies not only on glucose but also on the amino acid serine as an alternative carbon…
Compression causes cancer cells to start spreading Summary A zebrafish model of melanoma shows that mechanical compression from surrounding tissues can flip cancer cells from a proliferative state into an…
