‘Hot knives and violence’: After historic discovery, King Tut’s mummy was decapitated and dismembered. Then researchers covered it up.
November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined the mummified remains of Tutankhamun. What followed was not a scientific triumph, but a destruction. Howard Carter’s team used hot knives and violence to decapitate the pharaoh, mutilate his limbs, and sever his torso. Then they covered it up. Tutankhamun’s tomb was first discovered in the […]
ToddyCat’s new hacking tool steals Outlook emails and Microsoft 365 access tokens
November 25, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/vulnerabilities The attacker known as ToddyCat has been observed employing new methods to access corporate email data belonging to targeted companies, including using a custom tool called TCSectorCopy. “This attack allows the user’s browser to be used to obtain OAuth 2.0 authentication protocol tokens, which can be used to access corporate email […]
Three SOC challenges you need to solve by 2026
2026 will mark a pivotal shift in cybersecurity. Threat actors are moving from experimenting with AI to becoming a primary weapon, using it to scale attacks, automate reconnaissance, and create highly realistic social engineering campaigns. storm on the horizon Global instability and rapid technology advancements are forcing security teams to adapt not just their defensive […]
Hackers hijack Blender 3D assets and deploy StealC V2 data-stealing malware
November 25, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details of a new campaign that leverages Blender Foundation files to distribute an information theft tool known as StealC V2. “This ongoing operation, which has been active for at least six months, involves embedding malicious .blend files into platforms such as CGTrader,” Morphisec researcher Shmuel Uzan […]
‘Never seen a skull like this before’: Medieval Spanish knight who died in battle had a rare genetic disorder, study finds
Archaeologists excavating a cemetery full of medieval knights in Spain found the body of a middle-aged man with two stab wounds to the head and a blow to the knee, suggesting he died in battle. But when they looked closely at its skeleton, they were struck by its unusually long and narrow head, which is […]
Destruction caused by ‘silent’ earthquakes deep in the Earth’s crust can heal itself within hours
Cracks deep in the Earth’s crust can reattach within hours after certain earthquakes, a new study suggests. Specifically, these cracks can heal rapidly after what geologists call a slow-slip event. This is when deformation and stress-induced movement between the two sides of a fault occurs over days, weeks, or months rather than seconds or, in […]
Two tornadoes tear through Mississippi in perfectly parallel orbits during deadly ‘superstorm’ — Earth seen from space
simple facts Where is it? tylertown, mississippi [31.140899624, -90.17186140] What is in the photo? A pair of parallel tracks carved by a tornado during a major storm Which satellite took the photo?Landsat 8 When was it taken? March 22, 2025 This impressive satellite image shows two nearly perfectly parallel tornado tracks in Mississippi carved into […]
CISA warns of high-value signals and active spyware activity hijacking WhatsApp users
November 25, 2025Ravi LakshmananSpyware/Mobile Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday issued a warning about criminals actively using commercial spyware and remote access Trojans (RATs) to target users of mobile messaging applications. “These cyberattackers leverage sophisticated targeting and social engineering techniques to deliver spyware, gain unauthorized access to victims’ messaging apps, […]
Google teams up with Accel to explore India’s next AI breakout
Google has partnered with Accel to discover and fund early-stage AI startups in India in a first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Google AI Futures Fund, launched earlier this year. On Tuesday, Accel and Google announced a partnership to co-invest up to $2 million in each startup through Accel’s Atoms program, with each company contributing up to […]
Altman says OpenAI’s upcoming AI devices will be more peaceful and gentle than the iPhone.
“When people see it, they say, ‘Is that all?…It’s so simple.’” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has this to say about how people will react when they see the company’s upcoming AI hardware devices for the first time. The device is the result of a collaboration between OpenAI and former Apple chief designer Jony Ive. Not […]