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The North Korean-related threat actor known as Scarcruft is said to have been behind an unprecedented Android surveillance tool named Kospy, which targets Korean and English-speaking users. Lookingout, who shared details about the Malware campaign, said the earliest version dates back to March 2022. The latest sample was flagged in March 2024. It is not clear how successful these efforts have been. “Kospy can collect a wide range of data, including SMS messages, call logs, locations, files, audio, and screenshots via dynamically loaded plugins,” the company said in its analysis. Malicious artifacts use Name File Manager, Phone Manager, Smart Manager,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it a “Monkey Trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. 100 years later, it is much more remembered.In March 1925, Tennessee became the country’s first state to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms. A strong response spread across the US. Final close shot: a Legal battle It has become one of the most famous in the country’s history.Historians say the trial began as a tourist gambit on behalf of a small town in Dayton, Tennessee. Town leaders were eager to support the financial backing, encouraging local teachers to challenge…
Flock Safety, a startup at Atlanta Tech known for Surveillance Technology, has won a fresh $275 million funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The investment will encourage the company’s push towards drone products and support the development of new manufacturing facilities, Reuters reports. This funding round values the safety of the herd, ranging from $4.8 billion last year. The company currently raises more than $950 million, making it one of Atlanta’s most funded startups, according to Pitchbook. Andreessen Horowitz’s third investment in flock safety is noteworthy given how unusual it is to double one company. Greenoaks Capital and Bedrock Capital also…
The SADC mission, which suffered a loss this year, will carry out a “phased withdrawal” of the military.Regional blocs in southern Africa say they have decided to “phasedly withdraw” the deployment of troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Leaders of the 16-country South African Development Community (SADC), which has lost at least 12 soldiers in the Eastern DRC since January, held a virtual summit on Thursday to discuss the ongoing conflict in the region that saw 30 years of unrest. The meeting comes the day after Angola announced that peace negotiations between the DRC and the Rwanda-backed…
Ivan Sotolite, co-founder and CEO of MoonPay, held in Miami.MoonpayCrypto Payments Giant MoonPay is expanding its push to the enterprise market with the acquisition of Iron, a startup with API-first Stablecoin infrastructure.This marks MoonPay’s second significant acquisition in two months, highlighting its ambition to dominate the rapidly growing stable payments market.”I think everyone has a digital currency wallet, whether internal or independent of a bank account. And builds backward compatibility with the existing financial system,” MoonPay co-founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in an exclusive interview.Already, MoonPay makes it easier for people to participate in the new…
A rush of agent AI solutions has been hitting the enterprise market, and now one of the bigger players in automation has scooped up the space startups in hopes of winning a larger portion of that market. Uipath said it has acquired Peak.ai, a Manchester startup that builds “decision-making” pricing and inventory management AI solutions for retail and manufacturing businesses as part of its quarterly results report last night. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed, but a source familiar with the transaction told TechCrunch that Peak.ai was not looking for a buyer or the end of the…
The Productivity Platform Click-Up launches an improved calendar tool that integrates tasks, documents, chats and meetings in one place. The most interesting feature of the calendar is the blocking of the integrated AI meeting note taker and task blocking. Clickup already had a calendar product, but it focused on managing and scheduling the team. Last year, the global supporters of A16Z and Tiger acquired calendar startup Hypercal. We are currently using some of that acquisition with our new calendar product. The company is currently focusing on personal productivity in the workplace by putting tasks at the forefront. Users can add…
Borodanka, Ukraine – A few days after Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a 500-kilometer high explosive bomb fell from a fighter plane, causing part of Maria Vasilenko’s apartment to collapse. On March 1, 2022, the attack levelled or damaged dozens of more homes in this former town, 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Kiev, Vasilenko and her neighbors were hiding in an ice-cold basement. They rushed outside to see how the heat waves transformed the air with blue melting snow and ignited cars, leafless trees and frozen grass around the building. “Have you ever seen hell? Vasilenko, 80,…
Breakthrough Energy, a climate-focused initiative founded by Bill Gates, has fired dozens of employees, according to The New York Times. The organization, as reported by the Times, dismantled staff working in partnership with the US Climate Policy Team, European Team, and other climate groups, citing internal memos and unnamed sources. “Bill Gates is just as committed as ever to advance the clean energy innovations needed to deal with climate change,” an energy spokesperson told The News York Times. “His work in this field will continue and focus on helping promote reliable and affordable clean energy solutions, allowing people to thrive…
March 13, 2025Ravi LakshmananAuthentication/Vulnerability The open source Ruby-SAML library discloses two high-strength security flaws that allow malicious actors to bypass Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication protection. SAML is an XML-based markup language, an open standard used to exchange authentication and authorization data between parties, enabling features such as single sign-on (SSO). This allows individuals to access multiple sites, services, and apps using a single credential. The vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2025-25291 and CVE-2025-25292 have a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10.0. They affect the next version of the library – = 1.13.0,