Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python Summary Recorded Future and journalists report that the TAG-150 crime crew has released CastleRAT in…
Scammers Are Using Grok to Spread Malicious Links on X Summary Bad actors on X (formerly Twitter) are exploiting X’s native AI assistant, Grok, to amplify malicious links in paid…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline built by two independent Israeli security researchers — dubbed Auto Exploit — used an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0)…
Mark Zuckerberg Sues Mark Zuckerberg Summary An Indiana bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg has filed suit against Meta after his commercial Facebook page was repeatedly disabled for “impersonating” Meta’s CEO,…
The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware Summary NYU engineers developed a proof-of-concept called Ransomware 3.0 that uses large language models to automate multiple phases of a ransomware…
Amazon’s Project Kuiper Strikes Its First Satellite Internet Deal With an Airline Summary Amazon’s Project Kuiper has landed its first airline partnership with JetBlue to provide satellite-powered in-flight Wi‑Fi. Amazon…
Air Pollution Can Drive Devastating Forms of Dementia, Research Suggests Summary New research reported via Slashdot (original reporting in The Guardian) links fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) to the formation…
First Brain-Wide Map of Decision-Making Charted In Mice Summary In a large multi-lab effort, neuroscientists assembled a brain-wide map of decision-making in mice by recording activity from over 620,000 neurons…
Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models Summary Uber’s Indian arm has begun offering short in‑app “digital tasks” to rideshare and delivery drivers so…
UK Government Trial of M365 Copilot Finds No Clear Productivity Boost – Slashdot Summary The UK Department for Business and Trade ran a pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot between October…
