Russia’s Sandworm hackers deploying wipers against Ukraine’s grain industry Summary New research from Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET attributes a recent campaign of destructive wiper attacks to the Russian state-linked hacking…
APT ‘Bronze Butler’ Exploits Zero-Day to Root Japan Orgs Summary A Chinese state-linked APT known as Bronze Butler exploited a critical zero-day (CVE-2025-61932) in Lanscope, a widely used endpoint management…
Lymphoid gene expression supports neuroprotective microglia function Article Date = 05 November 2025 Article URL = https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09662-z Article Image = https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-025-09662-z/MediaObjects/41586_2025_9662_Fig1_HTML.png Summary This Nature paper shows that a subset of…
Cyberattack ate up profits for first half of year, retailer M&S says Summary Marks & Spencer reported H1 2025 pre-tax profits of just £3.4 million, down from £391.1 million in…
Critical Site Takeover Flaw Affects 400K WordPress Sites Summary A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-11833, CVSS 9.8) in the Post SMTP WordPress plugin (all versions up to and including 3.6.0) allows unauthenticated…
Biggest black-hole outburst ever seen records death throes of a star Article Date: 04 November 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03597-1 Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-025-03597-1/d41586-025-03597-1_51663736.jpg Summary Astronomers have confirmed the brightest black-hole flare…
Pro-Russian Hackers Use Linux VMs to Hide in Windows Summary Bitdefender, working with the Georgian CERT, has detailed how a Russia-aligned threat actor tracked as “Curly COMrades” compromises Windows endpoints…
Data brokers selling location info that can be used to track EU officials, report finds Summary A coalition of European newsrooms found that freely available datasets from data brokers contained…
Japan’s first female prime minister doesn’t call herself a feminist — but the country needs her to tackle sexism in science Summary Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister…
When will Africa have a Nobel prize in medicine? Summary African researchers have driven life‑saving advances — from vaccine development to genomic surveillance and public‑health interventions — yet no one…
