The critical React2Shell vulnerability is now being exploited by actors linked to North Korea, according to new research. They’re using it to deploy a sophisticated remote access trojan that uses Ethereum smart contracts for stealth.
Portugal has carved out legal protections for cybersecurity researchers, a move that highlights the UK’s outdated Computer Misuse Act. UK Security Minister Dan Jarvis has now admitted the 1990 law needs updating to create a “statutory defense” for researchers.
A proposed EU law aiming to create a single space market could have significant financial downsides. An analysis projects hundreds of millions in lost revenue for transatlantic companies, with Chinese firms seeing little impact.
An anti-AI activist who helped found the Stop AI group is now missing and considered armed and dangerous by San Francisco police. Sam Kirchner, 27, allegedly threatened to buy weapons and target OpenAI workers, leading to a lockdown at the company’s offices last month. His former colleagues are more
A widespread Cloudflare outage is causing problems for sites like LinkedIn and Coinbase. Interestingly, Epic Games’ status page shows Fortnite servers as fully functional despite the reports.
Rachel Tobac, a champion ethical hacker, explains that the real security threat isn’t complex code—it’s human psychology. She’s made it her mission to teach people and companies how to defend against these manipulative attacks.
The Linux kernel is getting a performance boost for encryption. New optimizations in the 6.19 release specifically benefit AMD Zen 3 and modern Intel CPUs with advanced vector extensions.
The threat landscape is massive, with roughly 450,000 new malicious programs created every single day. Protecting your computer isn’t just about buying software; it’s about using the free tools you already have and adopting smarter digital habits.
As ACH payment volumes hit $23.2 trillion and fraud attempts surge, businesses need better pre-payment controls. Prometeo’s new Name Match feature verifies the likely owner of a bank account in real-time, without requiring user logins. It’s built for scale, aiming to slash costly misdirected payment
An international coalition is trying to write rules for the murky world of commercial spyware. The goal is to curb dangerous hacking tools while letting governments still use them for national security.
