Mandiant discovers ShinyHunters-style Vishing attack that steals MFA and compromises SaaS platforms
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 31, 2026Social Engineering/SaaS Security Mandiant, a Google company, said Friday that it has seen “expanded threat activity” using tradecraft consistent with extortion-themed attacks organized by a group of financially motivated hackers known as Shiny Hunters. This attack utilizes sophisticated voice phishing (also known as vishing) and a fake credential aggregator site that imitates […]
CERT Polska details coordinated cyberattacks on over 30 wind and solar farms
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 31, 2026Network security/SCADA CERT Polska, Poland’s computer emergency response team, has uncovered a coordinated cyberattack targeting more than 30 wind and solar power plants, private companies in the manufacturing industry, and large combined heat and power plants (CHPs) that provide heat to almost 500,000 customers in the country. This incident occurred on December […]
Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, Physical Intelligence, is building Silicon Valley’s most active robot brain
From the street, the only sign I could find that it was Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco was the pi symbol on the door, which was a slightly different color than the rest of the building. Once inside, you’ll immediately encounter activity. There’s no reception desk, no logo glowing in the fluorescent lights. Inside, […]
OnlyFans considers selling majority stake to Architect Capital
OnlyFans, a large adult creator network where performers and influencers sell subscription-based content directly to their fans, is considering selling a majority stake in the business to investment firm Architect Capital, people close to the deal told TechCrunch. The deal values the platform at $5.5 billion. Of the $5.5 billion, $3.5 billion will be in […]
OpenClaw’s AI assistant is now building its own social network
The viral personal AI assistant previously known as Clawdbot has a new name again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker Anthropic, the company briefly rebranded itself to Moltbot, but has now settled on OpenClaw as its new name. The name change was not ordered by Anthropic, which declined to comment. But this time, Clawdbot’s […]
An informant told the FBI that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker.”
A confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker,” according to documents released Friday by the Justice Department. The document, released as part of the Justice Department’s legally mandated effort to release documents related to investigations into deceased sex offenders, does not specify who the alleged hacker was, but […]
Blue Origin suspends space tourism flights to focus on the moon
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin will pause its space tourism flights for “at least two years” to focus all resources on its upcoming mission to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision temporarily halts the program that Blue Origin has used for the past five years to fly humans beyond the Kármán Line, […]
SpaceX’s IPO could open the floodgates — and secondaries are booming in the meantime
SpaceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a potential 2026 IPO — a move that could signal the long-awaited reopening of the public markets after a years-long IPO drought. In the meantime, late-stage private companies like SpaceX are finding other ways to create liquidity for employees and early shareholders, largely through […]
New triple-drug treatment halts pancreatic cancer progression, mouse study reveals
Triple-drug therapy for pancreatic cancer has shown promise in early animal studies, offering a potential new treatment for a disease with notoriously low survival rates. Pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most deadly common cancers, with a 5-year relative survival rate of approximately 13%. This means that approximately 87% of cancer patients are expected […]
Anthropic brings agent plugin to Cowork
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced Cowork, a new agent tool that aims to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant, Claude Code, and transform it into a more general-purpose tool that even non-programmers can benefit from. Anthropic has introduced new features within Cowork to provide even more powerful capabilities for enterprise users. Look, it’s […]