Russian hacker sentenced to two years in prison for ransomware attack led by TA551 botnet
hacker newsMarch 25, 2026Cybercrime/Ransomware The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet used to launch ransomware attacks against US companies. Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatchi, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who operated under the online aliases Milano and Occult, […]
Device code phishing attacks 340+ Microsoft 365 organizations in 5 countries using OAuth exploitation
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an active device code phishing campaign targeting Microsoft 365 IDs across more than 340 organizations in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany. According to Huntress, this activity was first discovered on February 19, 2026, and subsequent cases have been occurring at an accelerated pace since then. […]
Lucid Bots raises $20 million to meet demand for window cleaning drones
Andrew Ashur, founder and CEO of window cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of today’s robotics industry. While many companies are building humanoids or promoting demonstrations of robots dancing and somersaulting, Lucid Bots’ drones are out in the field doing traditionally unsexy and dangerous tasks like cleaning […]
Diagnostic dilemma: A man’s cross tattoo on his neck disappears, causing skin damage when it disappears.
Patient: 20-year-old male living in China Symptoms: Patient had a red cross tattoo on his neck, just below his voice box. But after three months, the ink disappeared. The man developed lumps on both sides of his neck that gradually grew in size. A sunken scar appeared where the ink had once been, and an […]
Mars secretly harbors gem-like crystals, including rubies and perhaps sapphires.
Observations by the Perseverance rover suggest that Mars’ rocks are filled with ruby-like crystals, and astronomers say other valuable minerals like sapphire may also be present throughout the Red Planet. An international team of researchers presented their findings based on observations in spring 2025 at the 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Texas […]
FCC bans new foreign-made routers over supply chain and cyber risk concerns
Ravi LakshmananMarch 25, 2026Network security/data protection The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Monday that it is banning the import of new foreign-made consumer routers, citing “unacceptable” risks to cyber and national security. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a post on The development means new models of foreign-made routers will no longer be eligible for […]
Former Thiel researcher’s startup launches drone to replace police helicopters
When I spoke with Blake Resnick, he was walking around his drone startup’s state-of-the-art office space in Seattle. The cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility, Resnick says, won’t be fully ready until later this year, possibly in November. Still, this large (and so far mostly empty) building holds potential for a fast-growing company looking to conquer a specific […]
New Mexico just handed Meta its first loss in child safety court, and the rest of the country is taking notice.
A Santa Fe jury on Tuesday found that Meta misled consumers about the safety of its platform and the risks to children, and ordered it to pay $375 million in civil penalties. In a press release issued shortly after the ruling, New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torres’ office called the ruling “a watershed moment for […]
OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone, but it’s now dead
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it is shutting down Sora, a TikTok-like social app that was released six months ago. OpenAI did not provide a reason for the closure or share information on when it would be officially retired. When Sora first opened as an invite-only social network, it seemed like everyone wanted an invite. But […]
Kentucky woman rejects $26 million offer to turn farm into data center
Ida Huddleston and her family have owned farms in northern Kentucky for generations. And they turned down at least one multi-million dollar offer to save it. Last year, a “major artificial intelligence company” offered $26 million to sell part of the farm for a proposed data center, according to a recent report from WKRC. Huddleston […]