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Do #AI companies work?

“The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.”

INTERPOL arrests 8 cybercriminals in West Africa linked to phishing scams and romance fraud, defrauding victims globally.

Europol and allies dismantle LockBit ransomware’s infrastructure, arresting key figures and sending a strong message to cybercriminals.

“When a new user logs into the server, it immediately stops all ‘noisy’ activities, lying dormant until the server is idle again. After execution, it deletes its binary and continues to run quietly in the background as a service.”

It’s worth noting that some aspects of the campaign were disclosed last month by Cado Security, which detailed an activity cluster that targets internet-exposed Selenium Grid instances with both cryptocurrency mining and proxyjacking software.

Specifically, the fileless perfctl malware has been found to exploit a security flaw in Polkit (CVE-2021–4043, aka PwnKit) to escalate privileges to root and drop a miner called perfcc.

Apple’s iOS 18.0.1 fixes a VoiceOver password vulnerability and an audio bug in iPhone 16. Update now!

Cloudflare mitigates a record-breaking 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack, marking a surge in global cyber threats.

LiteSpeed Cache plugin vulnerability (CVE-2024–47374) exposes WordPress sites to XSS attacks. Update to version 6.5.1 now.

Google enhances Pixel security in Android 14 to block baseband attacks, 2G downgrades, and SMS Blaster fraud.

MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium Falcon in the film “Star Wars,” that could someday help biologists and clinicians study DNA, classify cells, and investigate the mechanisms of disease.

Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, the device uses a beam of light emitted by a silicon-photonics chip to manipulate particles millimeters away from the chip surface. The light can penetrate the glass cover slips that protect samples used in biological experiments, enabling cells to remain in a sterile environment.

Traditional optical tweezers, which trap and manipulate particles using light, usually require bulky microscope setups, but chip-based optical tweezers could offer a more compact, mass manufacturable, broadly accessible, and high-throughput solution for optical manipulation in biological experiments.