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Partnering with local health authorities not only helps prevent the next epidemic, but it also makes sure that these virological samples are kept secure—“so it’s not accidentally going to leak out of these public health facilities or not be stolen by a terrorist,” Robert Pope, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at DTRA, explained in a 2022 interview.DTRA’s staff operate as an “early warning system,” a congressional staffer tells WIRED, ahead of any deployment of the US military, they say. While it may not be a traditional kind of military power, they add, it should still fit into this administration’s priorities.…

CrowdStrike researchers have developed a next-gen method to train byte-based Transformer blocks that help models “understand” malware files rather than rely on detecting the presence of markersDuring testing, Binary Transformers significantly outperformed traditionally trained models in differentiating between benign and malicious code samplesThe results demonstrate the potential in using Binary Transformers to improve malware detection and classification In recent years, Transformer models have been the backbone of the revolution within the artificial intelligence sector. They are the basis of large language models (LLMs) and responsible for LLMs’ ability to understand and generate text of a human-like quality. Transformers are able…

Palo Alto, Singapore, March 6th, 2025, CyberNewsWire With recent attack disclosures like Browser Syncjacking and extension infostealers, browser extensions have become a primary security concern at many organizations. SquareX’s research team discovers a new class of malicious extensions that can impersonate any extension installed on the victim’s browser, including password managers and crypto wallets. These malicious extensions can morph themselves to have the exact same user interface, icons and text as the legitimate extension, making it an extremely convincing case for victims to enter their credentials and other sensitive information. This attack impacts most major browsers, including Chrome and Edge.…

TL;DR: SCCM forest discovery accounts can be decrypted including accounts used for managing untrusted forests. If the site server is a managed client, service account credentials can be decrypted via the Administration Service API. Introduction While Duane Michael, Chris Thompson, and I were originally working on the Misconfiguration Manager project, one of the tasks I took on was to create every possible account in the service and see how many of them could be discovered and extracted. Nearly all of those credentials, at least in a standard deployment, can be recovered using the techniques in CRED-5 that Benjamin Delpy and Adam…

Tax season is already stressful for many Americans, and to make matters worse, it’s also a golden opportunity for scammers.   According to a new 2025 tax season survey conducted by McAfee, nearly half (48%) of people say they, or someone they know, has received a message via email, social media, phone call, or text message falsely claiming to be from the IRS or an official state tax authority.  And when these deceptive messages and other manipulative AI practices work, research reveals it costs — a lot.  The Findings: 10% of Tax Scam Price Tags Topped $10,000  Gen Z adults…

Introduction Let’s talk about Kubernetes probes and why they matter in your deployments. When managing production-facing containerized applications, even small optimizations can have enormous benefits. Aiming to reduce deployment times, making your applications better react to scaling events, and managing the running pods healthiness requires fine-tuning your container lifecycle management. This is exactly why proper configuration — and implementation — of Kubernetes probes is vital for any critical deployment. They assist your cluster to make intelligent decisions about traffic routing, restarts, and resource allocation. Properly configured probes dramatically improve your application reliability, reduce deployment downtime, and handle unexpected errors gracefully.…

Welcome to our Behind the Startup series, where we explore groundbreaking innovations in the Web3 space. Today, we have Alex Loktev, CRO at P2P.org, a leading blockchain infrastructure provider that has managed over $10 billion in staked and restaked assets across more than 40 blockchain networks. In this interview, Alex shares insights into the strategic vision, security innovations, and Ethereum Pectra upgrade, providing a deep dive into the future of PoS staking. Ishan Pandey: Hi Alex Loktev, CRO at P2P.org, welcome to our “Behind the Startup” series. Since launching in 2018, P2P.org has managed over $10 billion in staked and…

New York prosecutors say that two people working at a third-party contractor for the StubHub online ticket marketplace made $635,000 after almost 1,000 concert tickets and reselling them online. As the prosecutors explain, the vast majority of stolen tickets were for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. However, the criminals also targeted other high-value and high-profile events, including Ed Sheeran concerts, Adele concerts, NBA games, and the US Open Tennis Championships. The two defendants, 20-year-old Tyrone Rose and 31-year-old Shamara Simmons, worked for Sutherland Global Services in Jamaica and stole the tickets by allegedly intercepting approximately 350 StubHub orders by exploiting a loophole…