Author: user

Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details of a new ransomware family called Osiris that targeted major food service franchise operators in Southeast Asia in November 2025. According to Symantec and the Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, the attack used a malicious driver called POORTRY as part of a known technique known as BYOVD (Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver) to disable security software. It is worth noting that Osiris is assessed to be an entirely new ransomware strain and bears no resemblance to another variant of the same name that emerged in December 2016 as an iteration of Locky ransomware. At this…

Ireland is considering new legislation that would give law enforcement more surveillance powers, including allowing the use of spyware. The Irish Government this week announced the introduction of the Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill. The bill would regulate the use of “lawful interception,” an industry term for surveillance technology that includes spyware made by companies such as Intellexa, NSO Group and Paragon Solutions. Jim O’Callaghan, Ireland’s Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Immigration, said: “There is an urgent need for a new legal framework for lawful interception that can be used to combat serious crime and security threats.” “The…

Ravi LakshmananJanuary 22, 2026Vulnerabilities / Linux A serious security flaw has been revealed in the GNU InetUtils Telnet daemon (telnetd) that went unnoticed for nearly 11 years. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-24061 and is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. This affects all versions of GNU InetUtils from version 1.9.3 to version 2.7. “Telnetd in GNU Inetutils 2.7 and later allows remote authentication bypass via the ‘-f root’ value of the USER environment variable,” according to the flaw description in the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD). In a post to the oss-security mailing list, GNU…

Engineers have developed a removable robotic hand that can crawl into hard-to-reach places and retrieve objects.The spider-like device can attach multiple fingers and is reversible, allowing it to grasp objects in both directions and manipulate it as if it had two functional palms.In a research paper published in the journal Nature Communications on January 20, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) said the robot was designed to combine two functions typically kept separate in robotics: manipulation and locomotion. you may like The hand can also operate without a fully mobile robot base. Instead, the robot simply…

Under Armor, the clothing and fitness data company, said it is investigating claims of a data breach after cybercriminals posted millions of customer records on a hacker forum. The seller told TechCrunch that the data was obtained in a data breach in November, which the Everest ransomware group claimed responsibility for in a post on the dark web leak site at the time. News of the data theft became even more public this week after breach notification site Have I Been Pwned obtained a copy of the stolen data and notified 72 million individuals via email that their information had…

The top talent behind yet another promising AI startup was swallowed up by the incumbent company. As part of the new licensing deal, Google DeepMind will bring in the CEO and several top engineers from voice AI startup Hume AI, Wired reports. What remains of Hume AI will continue to provide its technology to other AI companies. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. TechCrunch reached out to Google and Hume AI to confirm this news. According to Wired, CEO Alan Cowen and about seven other engineers will work with DeepMind to improve Gemini’s voice capabilities. Hume’s acquisition is…

Blue Origin is scheduled for the third launch of its giant rocket, New Glenn, in late February. But it won’t be heading to the moon, as the company has previously hinted. Instead, the rocket will carry a satellite into low Earth orbit for AST SpaceMobile, marking the second time Jeff Bezos’ space company has flown a commercial payload with New Glenn. The company did not immediately explain why it chose to launch the AST SpaceMobile satellite rather than its own robotic lunar lander. The lander, known as Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1), is currently being transported to NASA’s Johnson Space…

Ravie LakshmananJan 22, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking News Most of this week’s threats didn’t rely on new tricks. They relied on familiar systems behaving exactly as designed, just in the wrong hands. Ordinary files, routine services, and trusted workflows were enough to open doors without forcing them. What stands out is how little friction attackers now need. Some activity focused on quiet reach and coverage, others on timing and reuse. The emphasis wasn’t speed or spectacle, but control gained through scale, patience, and misplaced trust. The stories below trace where that trust bent, not how it broke. Each item is a…

Sweden is taking a major step towards a climate-neutral future with the launch of a hydrogen valley from the High Coast to the West Coast. This large-scale EU-funded initiative aims to create regional value chains for renewable hydrogen. This six-year project, coordinated by RISE, aims to transform Västernorrland and Western Sweden into a hub for sustainable hydrogen production, distribution and utilization. The project, with a total budget of around 20 million euros, brings together 45 partners from industry, research institutes and the public sector. Magnus Hallberg, head of bioeconomy at RISE, believes Sweden can be at the forefront of Europe’s…

Two days after Snapchat settled a lawsuit accusing it of contributing to social media addiction and mental health issues, the company announced it would introduce new parental controls. Parents and guardians can now use Snapchat’s Family Center tool to see how much time their teens are spending on the platform and see details about new friends they’ve added. With these new features, Snap is likely trying to appease regulators and parents concerned about safety and screen time concerns on the platform. Parents can now see the average amount of time their teens spent on Snapchat each day over the past…