North Korean hackers turn JSON service into covert malware delivery channel
November 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Threat Intelligence The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage their malicious payloads. NVISO researchers Bart Parys, Stef Collart, and Efstratios Lontzetidis said in a Thursday report that “attackers have recently been using JSON storage services such […]
New Jersey man dies from meat allergy triggered by tick bite
A New Jersey man has died in the first recorded death from alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy caused by tick bites. In September 2024, a 47-year-old man collapsed and lost consciousness about four hours after eating a hamburger at a barbecue, doctors wrote in a case report. Despite attempts by the man’s son and paramedics […]
OpenAI announces fix for ChatGPT em dash issue
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT will remove all dashes when directed to do so. These signs, which appear to signal text written by AI, have popped up everywhere in recent months, including school newspapers, emails, comments, customer service chats, LinkedIn posts, online forums, and ad copy. The inclusion of the em dash led people to criticize […]
Astrophotographer takes ‘absolutely ridiculous’ photo of skydiver ‘falling’ over the surface of the sun
An astrophotographer has captured a stunning shot of a falling skydiver matching perfectly with the sun’s fiery surface. A flying adventurer appears to be rolling through the vacuum of space in front of our home planet. Andrew McCarthy, an Arizona-based astrophotographer who specializes in photographing the sun, snapped the unlikely photo around 9 a.m. MST […]
Five people plead guilty to helping North Koreans infiltrate US companies as ‘remote IT workers’
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that five North Koreans have pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting fraud from U.S. companies by posing as remote IT employees. The five are suspected of working as “middlemen” who helped North Koreans find jobs by providing their real identities or the false and stolen identities of […]
Mammoth RNA sequenced for the first time, a major leap towards understanding prehistoric life
Scientists have successfully sequenced the RNA of a woolly mammoth for the first time, dispelling the assumption that this fragile genetic molecule cannot survive from time immemorial. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, acts as a messenger that carries instructions between DNA and an organism’s protein-building machinery, converting genetic information into proteins. RNA can reveal which genes […]
Researchers discover serious AI bug exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft inference frameworks
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all trace back to the same root cause: the overlooked and dangerous use of ZeroMQ (ZMQ) and Python’s pickle deserialization,” Oligo Security […]
Pine Labs receives enthusiastic reception from market with $440 million Indian IPO despite valuation cut
Pine Labs, the payments technology company backed by PayPal and Mastercard, won support from retail investors on Friday, ending its first day of trading 14% higher despite lowering the valuation of its $440 million IPO. This makes it India’s second-largest fintech listed company this year, after online brokerage Groww’s debut earlier this week with about […]
Pixel 10 Pro Fold review: Google’s bet to make foldable devices tougher
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold doesn’t look much different when placed side-by-side with last year’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold. Other than Google’s AI chops, there aren’t any major overhauls at first glance. However, this is the first foldable product to receive an IP68 rating, which is significant. Ever since companies started releasing foldable products, durability […]
Teeth analysis reveals that North America’s giant ‘hell pig’ may have been crushing bones like a lion 30 million years ago
North America’s giant “hell pigs” may have been munching on bones some 30 million years ago, while smaller pigs were tearing through softer substances like meat, a new study has found. The “hell pigs,” scientifically known as archaeotherium (Greek for “ancient beast”), were a group of pig-like creatures that could be as tall as a […]