Building cyber resilience in financial services
introduction Financial institutions are facing a new reality. Cyber resilience has moved from a best practice to a business necessity to a prescriptive regulatory requirement. Crisis management and tabletop exercises have long been relatively rare in the cybersecurity context, but have become mandatory as a series of regulations, including the EU’s DORA (Digital Operational Resilience […]
AI Tools in Malware, Botnets, GDI Flaws, Election Attacks & More
Nov 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News Cybercrime has stopped being a problem of just the internet — it’s becoming a problem of the real world. Online scams now fund organized crime, hackers rent violence like a service, and even trusted apps or social platforms are turning into attack vectors. The result is a global […]
James Webb Telescope and Very Large Telescope discover strange ‘runaway’ planet behaving like star eating 6 billion tons per second
Astronomers have discovered a “rogue” planet swallowing gas and dust at record speed, but say they can’t explain its mysterious behavior. Many rogue planets have been discovered over the years, floating freely in space without orbiting a star, but this planet, known as Cha 1107-7626, appears to be the fastest growing floating planet ever discovered, […]
Bitdefender Named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response
November 6, 2025hacker newsUS Bitdefender has once again been recognized as a leading vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for the fourth consecutive year. According to Gartner, more than 600 providers worldwide claim to offer MDR services, but only a select few meet the criteria to be included in […]
Hackers weaponize Windows Hyper-V to hide Linux VMs and evade EDR detection
November 6, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Network Security An attacker known as Curly COMrades has been observed exploiting virtualization technology as a way to bypass security solutions and execute custom malware. According to a new report from Bitdefender, the attackers allegedly enabled the Hyper-V role on selected victim systems and deployed minimal Alpine Linux-based virtual machines. “This hidden […]
SonicWall confirms state-sponsored hackers were behind September cloud backup breach
November 6, 2025Ravi LakshmananIncident response/cloud security SonicWall has officially suggested that state-sponsored attackers were behind a September security breach that led to the unauthorized release of firewall configuration backup files. “The malicious activity carried out by state-sponsored threat actors was limited to unauthorized access to cloud backup files from specific cloud environments using API calls,” […]
Lucid Motors’ chief engineer retires after 10 years
Lucid Motors Chief Engineer Eric Buck will retire from the company after more than 10 years, the company announced. Bach, who also served as senior vice president of products at Lucid Motors, has been with the company since 2015. He joins Lucid after three years as Director of Engineering at Tesla, working alongside Peter Rawlinson, […]
James Webb Telescope Creates First 3D Map of Alien’s Atmosphere – Also Discovers Torn Water
Scientists have created the first three-dimensional map of a distant planet’s atmosphere. Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and a technique known as eclipse mapping, researchers discovered that there are different temperature zones in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-18b, a gas giant planet located about 400 light-years from Earth. The same process […]
Giant 3,000-year-old Mayan ruins in Mexico depict the universe and ‘cosmic order’, research claims
Researchers say the 3,000-year-old Mayan ruins are actually giant city-sized maps depicting the “order of the universe.” A new study suggests that this ruin in what is now southeastern Mexico was a cosmogram of how ancient people there saw the universe. The site, known as Aguada Fénix, is “the oldest and largest monumental structure in […]
Lina Khan to co-chair New York Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani’s transition team
After Zoran Mamdani won the New York mayoral race on Tuesday night, his campaign announced that former FTC Chair Lina Khan would be one of four co-chairs of his transition team. Mr. Khan is an ally of Mr. Mamdani and praised his work helping small business owners in an op-ed in the New York Times. […]