US Treasury Tracks $4.5B in Ransom Payments since 2013 Summary The US Treasury’s FinCEN report (released 4 Dec 2025) aggregates Bank Secrecy Act reports and shows BSA-covered organisations reported $4.5…
Trump plans executive order curbing state AI laws Summary President Donald Trump has announced he will sign an executive order to establish a “one rule” federal approach to artificial intelligence,…
More than $2 billion in payments from 4,000 ransomware incidents reported to Treasury in recent years Summary Companies paid more than $2.1 billion to ransomware gangs from January 2022 to…
Apache Issues Max-Severity Tika CVE After Patch Miss Summary The Apache Software Foundation has issued a new, maximum-severity CVE — CVE-2025-66516 (CVSS 10) — after an earlier advisory and patch…
Exploitation Activity Ramps Up Against React2Shell Summary React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) is a critical remote‑code‑execution deserialization flaw in React Server Components that was publicly disclosed in early December 2025. Exploitation began within…
Researchers track dozens of organizations affected by React2Shell compromises tied to China’s MSS Summary Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have confirmed that more than 30 organisations have…
193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting ‘violence-as-a-service’ Summary Europol-led investigators have arrested 193 suspects across Europe in a six-month operation tackling so-called “violence-as-a-service” — networks that recruit, groom or coerce…
The Chinese finance whizz whose DeepSeek AI model stunned the world Summary Liang Wenfeng, a former finance analyst turned founder of DeepSeek, propelled the AI community into a new phase…
The visionary physicist who gave us a new way to view the cosmos Article meta Article Date: 08 December 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03840-9 Article Title: The visionary physicist who gave…
9,000 metres under the sea: this researcher found the deepest animal ecosystems on Earth Summary Looking out of the Chinese submersible Fendouzhe more than nine kilometres below the surface, Mengran…
