Divergent evolutionary strategies pre-empt tissue collision in gastrulation Summary This Nature paper (Dey et al., 2025) shows that a transient epithelial fold called the cephalic furrow (CF) is a cyclorrhaphan…
Inside a mosquito factory Summary There’s a large facility in Curitiba, Brazil, mass-rearing millions of mosquitoes — roughly producing one kilo of mosquito eggs per week — to fight mosquito-borne…
Amazon Stymies APT29 Credential Theft Campaign Summary Amazon’s threat intelligence team discovered and disrupted a watering‑hole credential theft campaign run by APT29 (also tracked as Midnight Blizzard, Nobelium, Cozy Bear).…
DNA2 enables growth by restricting recombination-restarted replication Summary This Nature study defines why the DNA2 helicase/nuclease is essential for eukaryotic cell proliferation. Using a combination of fission yeast genetics and…
WordPress Woes Continue Amid ClickFix Attacks, TDS Threats Summary Recent campaigns continue to exploit vulnerable and malicious WordPress plug-ins to compromise sites and monetise their traffic. The Israel National Digital…
FTC fines toy manufacturer for allowing Chinese third-party to collect kids’ data Summary The US Department of Justice filed a complaint against Chinese toy maker Apitor after a referral from…
WhatsApp Bug Anchors Targeted Zero-Click iPhone Attacks Summary A vulnerability in WhatsApp (CVE-2025-55177, CVSS 5.4) combined with a previously patched Apple OS flaw (CVE-2025-43300) appears to have been used in…
Corruption case against ousted cyber chief is ‘revenge,’ Ukraine’s security service says Summary The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says charges brought this week by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU)…
Varonis Acquires Email Security Provider SlashNext to Enhance BEC Defences Summary Varonis has acquired SlashNext to integrate advanced phishing, business‑email‑compromise (BEC) and social‑engineering defences into its Data Security Platform, extending…
Cas9 senses CRISPR RNA abundance to regulate CRISPR spacer acquisition Summary This Nature paper reports that Cas9 — best known as an RNA-guided nuclease — has an additional, RNA-independent role:…
