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Category: Cybercrime and Darknet

Cyberdrones, radar evasion, and autonomous swarms: Rome, the invisible challenge of Jubilee 2025

Jubilee 2025 in Rome presents a challenge not only for managing millions of pilgrims and tourists, but also for protecting urban airspace. Drones, increasingly widespread and accessible, bring with them significant vulnerabilities and risks. Despite the implementation of advanced monitoring and control systems, critical issues remain related to non-compliant or home-built drones, which can evade identification and tracking systems. Between radar evasion, autonomous swarms, encrypted communications and the threat of cyber-drones, a new technological scenario is emerging for the Capital The UAV control system in Rome In preparation for the event, Rome installed two antennas along the Vatican-Aurelia axis to monitor drone

It all started with LinkedIn and a work contact: developers lured, crypto wallets emptied

A North Korean group linked to the DPRK has developed EtherHiding , a method for hiding malicious code within public blockchain smart contracts and modifying payloads on the fly. According to Google Threat Intelligence Group, this technique was adopted by the UNC5342 group, also known as CL-STA-0240 from Palo Alto Networks, DeceptiveDevelopment from ESET, and DEVPOPPER from Securonix. The attack vectors are consistent with the long-running “Contagious Interview” campaign: attackers contact developers via LinkedIn, posing as recruiters, move the conversation to Telegram or Discord, and, under the guise of a test, trick them into executing malicious code. The goal is to gain

Nvidia, Microsoft, and xAI join forces to acquire Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion

A consortium of Nvidia, Microsoft, BlackRock and xAI , the company founded by Elon Musk , announced on Wednesday an agreement to acquire Aligned Data Centers for a total value of $40 billion . Aligned, which specializes in the design and management of data centers and technology campuses in North and South America , is currently controlled by Macquarie Asset Management . According to the companies involved, the transaction will be led by MGX , an Abu Dhabi -based company and member of BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners and AI Infrastructure Partners (AIP) . The agreement involves the acquisition of 100% of Aligned

From online fraud to organ trafficking. South Korea repatriates citizens from Cambodia.

South Korea has launched a repatriation operation for its citizens from Cambodia, following reports of kidnappings, violence and the death of a 22-year-old student who was the victim of a large-scale scam. According to South Korea’s Directorate for National Security, Wi Seungrak, the location of most of the missing has been identified, but 79 remain unaccounted for. About 60 other citizens have been arrested by Cambodian authorities, and the government plans to secure their repatriation. Fraud centers in Cambodia function like closed labor camps: people are lured with advertisements promising high wages, then held in closed premises and forced to defraud others

Bus becomes travelling museum of retro computers in UK

In the UK, father and son Jason and Luke Stoner have transformed an old school bus into a traveling museum dedicated to retro computers and game consoles. The inspiration came when Luke visited the famous Computer Museum in Cambridge, deciding to make vintage technology accessible to a wider audience. Thus was born Retro Reset, a nonprofit organization that began the complete restoration of the vehicle in autumn 2024. The project was completed in just a year, with the Cambridge Museum among the initiative’s main sponsors. The bus currently travels across East Sussex, stopping at schools, colleges and youth centres, aiming to introduce

A computer science degree is no longer a guarantee of employment. AI is stealing jobs (and interviews).

Once upon a time, a degree in computer science was a guarantee of success. Competitive salaries, generous benefits, and immediate employment opportunities were the norm. Today, however, for many young graduates in 2025, the reality has turned out to be very different. Azka Azmi, a recent spring graduate, told the Toronto Star she’s sent out hundreds of applications without a single response. “It’s like talking to a machine,” she explained, describing an increasingly impersonal and frustrating selection process. Statistics confirm this trend. In Ontario, job opportunities in software development and programming decreased by 25% between 2020 and 2024. Entry-level positions—traditionally the first

The era of one-handed supercomputers is upon us! GIGABYTE ATOM: A petaflop and 128GB of AI storage.

On October 15, in addition to the much-vaunted NVIDIA DGX Spark solution, created in collaboration between NVIDIA and Mediatek, another mini AI accelerator made its debut to the world: the GIGABYTE ATOM. GIGABYTE Technology, today announced the official launch of its AI TOP ATOM , a platform based on the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB10 superchip, the same chip as the DGX Spark. This innovative solution features a lightweight design compatible with standard home power supplies and comes pre-installed with the NVIDIA AI software stack, delivering powerful compute performance, making it an ideal platform for AI prototyping, tuning, and inference. The AI TOP

100 years of Italian Intelligence! Mattarella celebrates the SIM’s centenary at the Quirinale Palace

October 15, 2025 marks an anniversary of exceptional importance in the history of Italian national security: one hundred years since the birth of the Military Information Service (SIM) , the country’s first intelligence service, established in 1925 by royal decree. The SIM was created with the aim of unifying the intelligence structures of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, laying the foundations for a coordinated system for safeguarding state security. Since then, Italian intelligence has undergone a century of profound transformations, moving from its military origins in the post-war period to the current Information System for the Security of the Republic ,

In China, robots do the cleaning: the new frontier of domestic robots

A robot capable of performing complex household tasks was unveiled at the headquarters of Hefei Zero Square Robot Co., Ltd. , marking a new step in the development of embodied intelligence. Inside the company’s exhibition hall, visitors could observe robots equipped with rotating arms performing everyday tasks such as cleaning tables, watering plants, and folding clothes . These demonstrations highlighted the high level of precision and coordination achieved by the control systems and manipulation mechanisms. Hefei Zero Square Robot Co., Ltd. specializes in the research, development, and application of intelligent humanoid robots . The founding team comes from the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory

The DGX Spark is on sale. An AI supercomputer in the palm of your hand!

We talked about the DGX Spark on August 29th , but now it seems that NVIDIA has released it and it has already sold out. The AI revolution has arrived, and now it’s in the palm of your hand. The NVIDIA DGX Spark, based on the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip, went on sale on October 15th. This revolutionary personal AI supercomputer enables developers to prototype, refine, and infer large-scale AI models on the desktop. The GB10 leverages MediaTek’s expertise in designing high-performance, low-power, high-speed CPUs, memory subsystems and interfaces to power the 20-core Arm Grace CPU. The GB10 delivers up to