Fiber Optic Spying, Windows Rootkit, AI Vulnerability Hunting and More
Ravie LakshmananApr 13, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking Monday is back, and the weekend’s backlog of chaos is officially hitting the fan. We are tracking a critical zero-day that has been quietly living in your PDFs for months, plus some aggressive state-sponsored meddling in infrastructure that is finally coming to light. It is one of those mornings where the gap […]
MTTD looks great. No gaps after alert
Last week, Anthropic restricted its Mythos preview model following the autonomous discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities across all major operating systems and browsers. Palo Alto Networks’ Wendy Whitmore warned that it could take weeks or months for similar features to become widespread. According to CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report, the average breakout time for […]
Scientists recently developed a nasal spray to protect against multiple respiratory illnesses, including seasonal influenza and COVID-19, and tested it on mice for three months. They call this promising invention a “universal respiratory vaccine,” but it doesn’t stimulate the immune system like traditional vaccines. you may like seek universal protection The push for a universal […]
Pomos Idol: A 5,000-year-old Cypriot fertility figurine with a miniature version of itself on a necklace.
The Pomos idol has become a symbol of Cyprus. (Image credit: The Print Collector/Alamy) simple facts Name: Pomos idol What is it: carved figurine Birthplace: Pomos, Cyprus Created: Around 3000 BC In the early 1930s, archaeologist Porphyrios Dikaios was excavating in the village of Pomos on the north coast of Cyprus when he accidentally discovered […]
North Korea’s APT37 uses Facebook social engineering to deliver RokRAT malware
Ravi LakshmananApril 13, 2026Social engineering/threat intelligence A North Korean hacker group tracked as APT37 (also known as ScarCruft) is believed to be involved in a new multi-stage social engineering campaign. In this campaign, threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a […]
The largest orbit calculation cluster begins operations
Despite all the hype about data centers in space, there aren’t that many GPUs out there. As that begins to change, the near-term business of orbital computing is starting to take shape. The largest compute cluster currently in orbit was launched in January by Canada’s Kepler Communications and includes about 40 Nvidia Orin edge processors […]
OpenAI revokes macOS app certificates following malicious Axios supply chain incident
OpenAI disclosed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign a macOS app that downloaded the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal systems were compromised. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are taking steps to protect the process by which our macOS applications certify that they are […]
Cloud Threat Retrospective 2026 | Wiz Research
Traditional vulnerabilities remain a key factor in cloud threat actor activity in 2025. In publicly documented incidents in Wiz’s cloud threat landscape, most initial accesses involved weaponized vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, and misconfigurations. However, the well-known nature of these vectors should not be misinterpreted to mean that the impact of an attacker’s actions will be limited […]
Company X says it is reducing payments to clickbait accounts
According to product director Nikita Beer, X is reducing payments to accounts that are “flooding timelines” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation. Beer wrote on Saturday:[a]He said the Elon Musk-owned social network would cut payments to “habitual bait posters who use ‘🚨BREAKING’ in every post.” “It’s become abundantly clear: 100 stolen reposts and clickbaits flooding […]
TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching self-driving car talent?
Welcome to TechCrunch Mobility. A hub for learning about the future of transportation and how AI is playing a role now more than ever. To receive this in your inbox, sign up for free here. Just click on TechCrunch Mobility. Usually I do an analysis and then make a little bird (I’ve hand-picked my inside […]