Buyer’s Guide to AI Usage Control
Today’s “AI Everywhere” reality is woven into daily workflows across the enterprise, embedded in a world of SaaS platforms, browsers, copilots, extensions, and shadow tools that are rapidly expanding faster than security teams can track them. However, most organizations still rely on traditional controls that operate far from where the AI interactions actually occur. As […]
Infy hackers resume operations with new C2 servers after Iran internet blackout ends
Rabi LakshmananFebruary 5, 2026Malware/Cyber Espionage The elusive Iranian threat group known as Infy (also known as Prince of Persia) has evolved its tactics as part of an effort to cover its tracks even as it prepares new command and control (C2) infrastructure to coincide with the end of a widespread regime-imposed internet blackout earlier in […]
Saltwater crocodiles crossed the Indian Ocean to the Seychelles before humans arrived and made them extinct.
Saltwater crocodiles once ranged across a vast range from across the Indian Ocean to the Seychelles, a new DNA study confirms. The extinct crocodile population in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, was not a group of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus), nor was it a separate species. Rather, it is probably the […]
Total lunar eclipse on March 3rd: When and where can you see the “blood moon” from the United States?
Sky watchers across western North America will have a chance to witness a total lunar eclipse, often referred to as a “blood moon,” in the early morning hours of March 3. A total lunar eclipse occurs when a full moon (in this case March’s full “worm moon”) passes through Earth’s shadow in space. At that […]
n8n critical flaw CVE-2026-25049 allows execution of system commands via malicious workflows
Rabi LakshmananFebruary 5, 2026Workflow automation/vulnerabilities A critical new security vulnerability has been disclosed in the n8n workflow automation platform that could be successfully exploited to execute arbitrary system commands. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-25049 (CVSS score: 9.4), is due to improper sanitization that bypasses safety measures put in place to address CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), […]
Malicious NGINX configuration enables massive web traffic hijacking campaign
Rabi LakshmananFebruary 5, 2026Web security/vulnerabilities Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an active web traffic hijacking campaign that targets NGINX installations and administrative panels such as Baota (BT) in an attempt to route them through attackers’ infrastructure. Datadog Security Labs said it has observed threat actors associated with recent React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182, CVSS score: 10.0) exploits using malicious […]
Sam Altman took a very harsh stance on Claude’s Super Bowl ad
Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercial, one of four ads dropped by AI Labs on Wednesday, begins with the word “BETRAYAL” boldly splashed across the screen. The camera shifts to a man eagerly seeking advice from a chatbot (obviously meant to portray ChatGPT) on how to talk to his mother. This bot, played by a blonde woman, […]
Revenue increases in Q4 as Snap prepares for general availability, but daily users decline
Snap is on a mission to diversify its revenue streams, moving from a business model that primarily follows advertising revenue to one that also makes money through subscriptions and eventually hardware. The company’s latest quarterly earnings report shows that the company has had some success with its strategy so far. Snap’s revenue for the fourth […]
Alphabet won’t tell investors about Google and Apple’s AI deal
Alphabet declined to answer a question about Google and Apple’s AI deals to one investor during its fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. Instead of answering an analyst’s question about how the tech giant was thinking about AI partnerships, such as its partnership with Apple to power Siri’s AI, the question was completely ignored. But this […]
Genetically unique group from southern Greece can trace paternal ancestry to the Bronze Age
A group of people living on the southern tip of Greece’s Peloponnese Peninsula have been genetically isolated for more than 1,000 years and can trace their roots back to the Bronze Age, a DNA analysis has revealed. New genetic research shows that this group, known as Deep Maniot Greeks, is paternally descended from ancient Greeks […]