Renewing their strategy, the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters group has returned to the forefront with a new and surprising tactic to put pressure on victims. Cybercriminals have promised a $10 cryptocurrency reward to anyone willing to participate in a mass email bombardment targeting company executives who were victims of a ransomware attack. The aim of the individuals involved was to persuade the managers to collaborate with the extortionists, that is, to pay the demanded ransom. On its Telegram channel, the group distributed detailed instructions with a list of recipients, including executives from 39 companies whose data had allegedly been compromised . They emphasized

The developers of the Redox OS operating system, written in Rust, have enabled multithreading support by default for x86 systems. Previously, the feature was experimental, but after some bug fixes, it has become an integral part of the platform. This provides a significant performance boost on modern computers and laptops. Redox OS was developed from the ground up and implemented entirely in Rust, a language focused on security and fault tolerance . Switching to a multithreaded model allows the system to use CPU resources more efficiently and execute parallel tasks faster, which is especially important for desktop and server scenarios. Additionally, the

The Israeli government has awarded the American company Clock Tower X LLC a $6 million contract to conduct a large-scale media campaign in the United States, Nick Cleveland-Stout reports on Responsible Statecraft. According to documents posted on the U.S. Department of Justice website, the company is required to create content aimed at Generation Z audiences and generate at least 50 million impressions per month across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other digital channels. One of Clock Tower’s goals will be to host content and create websites that will influence how language models, including ChatGPT, generate responses to Israel-related topics . The company will

The Microsoft Teams collaboration platform has become a popular target for attackers, as its widespread adoption has made it a high-value target. Messaging, calling, and screen-sharing features are being exploited for malicious purposes. According to a Microsoft advisory, both state-sponsored threat actors and cybercriminals are increasingly abusing Teams’ features and capabilities in their attack chains. Threat actors misuse its core features, namely messaging (chat), calling, meetings, and video-based screen sharing, at several points in the attack chain. This raises the stakes for security managers, who must proactively monitor, detect, and respond. While Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) has strengthened security, the company

It would be fantastic to have an AI agent capable of automatically analyzing our projects’ code, identifying security bugs, generating fixes, and immediately releasing them into production. Yet, it seems we’ll have to get used to this idea: artificial intelligence promises that all this is no longer science fiction, but an approaching reality. Google DeepMind has unveiled CodeMender , a new artificial intelligence agent designed to automatically find and fix vulnerabilities in software code. According to the company’s official blog , the system combines the capabilities of Gemini Deep Think’s large language models with a set of tools for patch analysis and

A fire at a government data center in South Korea has reduced the country’s digital infrastructure to rubble and starkly demonstrated the dangers of relying on a single hub. The fire broke out at the National Information Resources Service complex in Daejeon during work on lithium-ion batteries, prompting authorities to raise the cyber threat level and admit that restoration would take weeks. Amid the unrest, President Lee Jae-myung called for a “second circuit” backup and a review of security approaches, and police have already raided NIRS and UPS suppliers. Ninety-six key systems went down, and hundreds more were shut down to prevent

Disillusionment with online dating is increasingly pushing women to seek emotional intimacy in the virtual world. More and more women are turning to artificial intelligence, namely chatbots designed for romantic communication . According to a 2025 survey, approximately a third of young men and nearly a quarter of women have already had at least one conversation with a digital partner. The online community dedicated to this phenomenon has long hidden its female audience, however the existence of a group like /MyBoyfriendIsAI on Reddit, which boasts more than 20,000 members, highlights the depth that the emotional bond with an artificial intelligence can reach.

During the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and one of the richest men in the world (with an estimated net worth of $235.4 billion according to Forbes Real-Time), defined the current enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) as a “bubble.” “Although AI is currently a bubble, it truly is one of those technologies that will change everything. Like the plow, like electricity.” Bezos explained that in times of great euphoria like the current one, “every experiment gets funded, every company gets funding, regardless of the quality of the ideas.” According to the billionaire, this scenario makes it difficult

In recent years, the topic of rare earths has returned to the forefront of international debate, especially given China’s dominant role in this strategic sector. Many wonder: why does the United States need to purchase rare earths from China, despite possessing significant reserves? US government data from 2022 sheds some light on some issues. China holds 44 million tons of rare earth reserves, equal to 33.8% of global reserves, but produces 69.2% of the global total. The Roots of Chinese Supremacy China’s advantage is not limited to ore quantities, but is based on decades of technological development and the complete integration of

A 13-year-old critical flaw, known as RediShell , in Redis allows remote code execution (RCE) , giving attackers the ability to gain full control of the underlying host system. The security issue has been flagged as CVE-2025-49844 and was discovered by Wiz Research. This issue has been assigned the highest severity rating on the CVE-2025-4984 … Analysis by Wiz Research revealed a large attack surface, with approximately 330,000 Redis instances exposed to the internet. Alarmingly, approximately 60,000 of these instances have no authentication configured. The security flaw, caused by a Use-After-Free (UAF) error in memory management, has been present in Redis code