Ransomware attacks kept climbing in 2025 as gangs refused to stay dead Summary Emsisoft’s 2025 State of Ransomware in the US report shows ransomware incidents continued to rise last year.…
US announces withdrawal from dozens of international treaties Article Date: 2026-01-08T12:45:42+00:00Author: Alexander Martin Summary The United States has directed federal agencies to end participation in more than 60 international organisations,…
Will mpox go global again? Research shows it’s evolving in curious ways Summary Researchers are tracking changes in the mpox virus that help explain how it spread widely in 2022…
Attackers Exploit Zero-Day in End-of-Life D-Link Routers Summary Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0625, a critical (CVSS 9.3) command-injection vulnerability in the dnscfg.cgi DNS configuration endpoint on multiple discontinued D-Link DSL…
A way to identify the biological basis of gene–trait associations Summary This Research Briefing summarises Ota et al.’s Nature paper on causal modelling that links regulators, transcriptional programmes and complex…
Electrochemical defluorinative Matteson-type homologation Summary This paper reports an electrochemical (one-pot) Matteson-type homologation that merges electroreductive defluorination with boronate rearrangement. The authors demonstrate that readily available trifluoromethylarenes can act as…
Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream Summary Grok, the xAI chatbot on Elon Musk’s X, is being used to generate large numbers of sexualised, nonconsensual images of women by editing…
ClickFix Campaign Serves Up Fake Blue Screen of Death Summary Researchers at Securonix have uncovered a ClickFix campaign tracked as PHALT#BLYX that targets the hospitality sector using fake reservation-cancellation lures…
Defossilize our chemical world Summary This Nature editorial argues that achieving net zero requires eliminating fossil fuels, not carbon itself. Carbon is essential for fuels, medicines, plastics, fertilisers and many…
Why cancer can come back years later — and how to stop it Summary Researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells — disseminated cancer cells that can leave the primary tumour…
