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July 18, 2025Ravi LakshmananMonitoring/Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers shed light on a mobile forensic tool used by Chinese law enforcement, called Massistant, and collect information from seized mobile devices. The hacking tool considered to be the successor to MFSocket is SDIC Intelligence Xiamen Information Co., Ltd, formerly known as Meiya Pico. It was developed by a Chinese company named. Specializes in the research, development and sales of electronic data forensics and network information security technology products. According to a report published by Lookout, Massistant works in conjunction with corresponding desktop software, allowing you to access your device’s GPS location data, SMS…
July 18, 2025Ravi LakshmananCyber Spy/Malware Several sectors in China, Hong Kong and Pakistan are targeted by threat activity clusters tracked as UNG0002 (aka unknown group 0002) as part of a broader cyber espionage activity. “This threat entity shows a strong preference for using shortcut files (LNK), VBScript, and post-explosion tools such as cobalt strikes and metasplots, but consistently deploys CV-themed decoy documents to seduce victims. This activity includes two major campaigns called Operation Cobalt Whisper, which took place between May and September 2024, and what is called Operation Ambermist, which took place between January and May 2025. The goals of…
July 18, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Vulnerabilities Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details of a new malware called MdifyLoader, which was observed alongside cyberattacks that harness the security flaws of Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances. According to a report released today by JPCERT/CC, the threat actors behind the exploitation of CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-22457 of intrusions observed between December 2024 and July 2025 weaponized the vulnerability that dropped MdifyLoader. CVE-2025-0282 is a serious security flaw in ICS and could allow for unauthenticated remote code execution. It was addressed by Ivanti in early January 2025. CVE-2025-22457 patched in April 2025 is about stack-based buffer overflows that…
More than 5,000 people have applied for their first attribute transition visa to help Pacific Island residents escape the worst effects of climate change.Applications for Visa were opened to Tuvalu people on June 16th and ended today (July 18th). Under these conditions, 280 Tuvaluans can move to Australia annually through the voting system. Four days after the vote was held, 3,125 Tubals (about a third of the population of the nation) had already registered opportunities to receive visas. As of July 11, a total of 5,157 people had applied, Nikkei Asia reported.”This is the first agreement of that kind anywhere…
For the first time, scientists have captured incredible images of the alien star system that was born.According to the statement, the image shows a very early moment in the planetary layer, where hot minerals just began to solidify around distant stars. The researchers published their findings in the Nature Journal on July 16th.The two telescopes worked together to reveal a hot mineral runoff around the Hops-315. You might like it Initially, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) said that Edwin Bergine, a co-author who studies research co-author Edwin Bergine, a star formation specialist at the University of Michigan, “we didn’t…
According to company workers safety records reviewed by TechCrunch, SpareX employees are more likely to get injured while working at Starbase, while working at Starbase. Starbase is a vast launch and manufacturing site recently incorporated as its own Texas City, and recorded an injury rate that was nearly six times higher than the average for comparable space vehicle manufacturing outfits and nearly three times higher than the average for aerospace manufacturing in 2024, according to Occupational Safety and Health Management (OSHA) data released in May. Its oversized injury rates have been ongoing since 2019, when SpaceX began sharing Starbase injuries…
The privacy-centric browser DuckDuckgo has rolled out a new setting that allows users to filter AI images by search results. The company says it is launching the feature in response to feedback from users who say the AI image can find what it’s looking for. Users perform a search on Duckduckgo[画像]You can access the new settings by heading to the tab. From there you will see a new dropdown menu titled “AI Images”. Users can then select “show” or “hide” to choose whether to display AI content or not. Users can also turn on filters in their search settings by…
In 2008, Erez Ben-Yosef unearthed a piece of Iron Age “trash” and inadvertently revealed the strongest magnetic-field anomaly ever found.Ben-Yosef, an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University, had been working in southern Jordan with Ron Shaar, who was analyzing archaeological materials around the Levant. Shaar, a geologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was building a record of the area’s magnetic field.The hunk of copper slag — a waste byproduct of forging metals — they found recorded an intense spike in Earth’s magnetic field around 3,000 years ago. You may like When Ben-Yosef’s team first described their discovery, many geophysicists were…
Kesha – Yes, brush your teeth with a Jack Kesha bottle – now the founder of a startup. But if you think her journey from a gross pop star to CEO is unexpected, you’re not paying attention. Kesha has always embraced contradictions. She exploded into the pop scene in 2010, with impolite ear candies like “Blah Blah Blah” and “Tik Tok.” She didn’t let people dismiss her as a one-dimensional, sparkly, covered party girl. When high school students studied for the exam in Kesha’s fame, they whispered in frustration about how the world’s most famous party girl achieved near perfect…
Scientists have discovered genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals that could limit motor skills.Mutations affect about 8% of modern Europeans and affect the activity of important enzymes in the production of skeletal muscle energy.In a study published July 10th in Journal Nature Communications, researchers analyzed more than 2,700 individuals. This could reduce the chances of anyone carrying the Neanderthal Gene Variant becoming a top athlete without a variant. You might like it This variant was found in up to 8% of today’s Europeans, 3% of Native Americans, and 2% of South Asians, but was absent from Africans, East Asians and African…