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Cybersecurity professionals and researchers can now launch Kali Linux in a virtualized container on macOS Sequoia using Apple’s new containerization framework. During WWDC 2025, Apple announced a new containerization framework that allows Apple Silicon hardware to run isolated Linux distros in its virtualized environment, similar to Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). To get started, users on macOS Sequoia with Apple Silicon can install the container CLI via Homebrew and initialize Apple’s container framework: brew install –cask container container system start You can then launch Kali Linux using the following command, which loads the container from the DockerHub container library and executes…

The Algorand Foundation has released a sweeping new roadmap to revive its ecosystem and push blockchain adoption into everyday life.Announced on July 31, the 2025+ roadmap is a strategic pivot meant to reassert Algorand’s relevance in a market increasingly dominated by competitors like Solana and Ethereum.According to CEO Staci Warden, the Foundation is laying the groundwork for digital infrastructure that mirrors real-world economic needs.She stated:“We’re building infrastructure for the real economy of the future: Systems that make digital identity self-sovereign, agentic payments an everyday reality, and tokenization an important tool for wealth accumulation.”Planned featuresA key roadmap element is a redesigned…

Intel 471 has launched Verity471, a next-generation cyber threat intelligence (CTI) platform. It brings together all of Intel 471’s solutions into one place, making it easier for security teams to work together, improve workflows, and get more from their threat intelligence. The platform extends beyond the provisioning of CTI by furnishing actionable insights that can be operationalized CTI out of the box. With Verity471, security teams are not only informed of potential threats but are also prepared to address and neutralize them effectively, ultimately strengthening their overall security posture. Verity471 is a unified and intuitive platform designed to action the…

Russia-linked APT Secret Blizzard targets foreign embassies in Moscow with ApolloShadow malware Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2025 Russia-linked Secret Blizzard targets foreign embassies in Moscow via ISP-level AitM attacks, deploying custom ApolloShadow malware. Microsoft researchers uncovered a cyberespionage campaign by the Russia-linked APT group Secret Blizzard (aka Turla, Snake, Uroburos, Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON)  targeting foreign embassies in Moscow. The threat actor uses an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) method at the ISP level to deploy custom malware called ApolloShadow. This malware can install a fake Kaspersky Anti-Virus trusted root certificate, tricking devices into trusting malicious websites and allowing long-term access for cyber espionage operations. The campaign, active since…

New Comparitech data showed a sharp rise in attacks on government agencies during the first half of 2025. Researchers logged 208 ransomware incidents targeting government entities worldwide, marking a 65% jump compared to the same period in 2024, which saw 126 attacks, and a 25% increase over the second half of 2024, which recorded 167. Of the 208 attacks in early 2025, 104 were confirmed by the affected organizations. In its ‘Government Ransomware Roundup,’ Comparitech identified that the numbers underscore how government bodies remain a top target for ransomware actors, outpacing other critical sectors. By contrast, Comparitech’s recent healthcare sector…

Four people were killed and a fifth was injured in a mass shooting at a Midtown Manhattan office building on Monday. The injured victim was an employee at the NFL, according to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Didarul Islam, 36, was an off-duty New York City police officer assigned to a Bronx precinct, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said. NYPD officers lined the streets in New York City on Monday evening to participate in the transfer of the body of Didarul Islam, an officer who was killed during a mass shooting at a Midtown Manhattan office building. Read more: https://t.co/R7RzVTDNTj pic.twitter.com/mBW9vgHxyL —…

segmentation is a popular task in computer vision, with the goal of partitioning an input image into multiple regions, where each region represents a separate object. Several classic approaches from the past involved taking a model backbone (e.g., U-Net) and fine-tuning it on specialized datasets. While fine-tuning works well, the emergence of GPT-2 and GPT-3 prompted the machine learning community to gradually shift focus toward the development of zero-shot learning solutions. Zero-shot learning refers to the ability of a model to perform a task without having explicitly received any training examples for it. The zero-shot concept plays an important role…

A sophisticated new ransomware campaign is actively tricking internet users around the world by employing fake verification pages to spread a dangerous threat called Epsilon Red malware. This critical finding is revealed in the latest threat intelligence report by CloudSEK, a leading cybersecurity firm. The ongoing campaign, first spotted in July 2025, uses social engineering in which attackers pretend to be popular online services like Discord, Twitch, and OnlyFans. They trick individuals into downloading malicious .HTA files, which are special HTML Applications that can run scripts directly on a computer. Silent Infection Through Browser Vulnerabilities According to CloudSec, when a…

Key Findings – Q2 2025 Ransomware Trends Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group disruptions: Several major ransomware groups have disappeared, leaving a fragmented ecosystem. Slight decline in public victim extortion: Fewer victims were named on data leak sites this quarter, likely due to law enforcement pressure and changing attacker tactics. Continuous shift toward data extortion: Attackers continue moving away from encryption, focusing instead on stealing and leaking data to force payment. Ransomware group Qilin leads with new extortion tools: Qilin was the most active group in Q2, using innovative methods to pressure victims and boost ransom payments. In Check Point Research’s latest Ransomware…