Crims hit the easy button for Scattered-Spider style helpdesk scams Summary Criminals are selling turnkey voice-phishing (vishing) kits on dark-web forums and messaging platforms that provide real-time assistance to carry…
FortiGate firewalls hit by silent SSO intrusions and config theft Summary Security firm Arctic Wolf has observed automated attacks starting around 15 January that target Fortinet FortiGate appliances using compromised…
Crims compromised energy firms’ Microsoft accounts, sent 600 phishing emails Summary Unknown attackers abused Microsoft SharePoint file-sharing links to harvest credentials and take over Microsoft accounts at multiple energy-sector organisations.…
Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers Summary A critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd), tracked as CVE-2026-24061 (CVSS 9.8), was disclosed on 20 January…
Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day Article Date: 2026-01-22T10:54:36+00:00 Summary Cisco has released an emergency patch for a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-20045) affecting the web-management…
An eye-popping discovery: early vertebrates had four eyes rather than two Summary A new analysis of Cambrian fossils (around 518 million years old) shows that the earliest known vertebrates possessed…
Hand stencils in Indonesian cave are world’s oldest known artworks Summary Rock art discovered in Sulawesi, Indonesia — specifically hand stencils — has been dated to at least 67,800 years…
Don’t click on the LastPass ‘create backup’ link – it’s a scam Summary LastPass has warned customers about a phishing campaign that began around 19 January 2026 which urges users…
Convergent evolution of scavenger cell development at brain borders Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10003-3 Article Image: Figure 1 Summary This paper identifies an endothelial lineage in non-mammalian…
The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS Article meta Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09972-2 Article Title: The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS…
