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As digital transformation and OT/IT convergence accelerate, attacks against critical infrastructure and other OT systems are on the rise. Water treatment plants, energy providers, factories, chemical plants, the infrastructure that supports our daily lives can all be at risk. Disruption…

Vaccines against Covid-19 were delivered with remarkable and unprecedented speed. The ones pioneered by Moderna in the US and BioNTech in Germany introduced the lay public to a new kind of shot: one that includes mRNA, the nucleic acid that…

A new cyber-attack technique using the OpenAI language model ChatGPT has emerged, allowing attackers to spread malicious packages into developer environments. Vulcan Cyber’s Voyager18 research team described the findings in an advisory published today. “We have observed that ChatGPT generates…

Water flows from the collapse of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in Ukraine Associated Press/Alamy The Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in southern Ukraine was severely damaged by an explosion, rapidly releasing large amounts of trapped water downstream. What impact will it…

June 6, 2023Ravi LakshmananMobile Security/Malvertising As part of a campaign that began in October 2022, thousands of adware apps for Android were found disguised as cracks or mods of popular apps, redirecting users and serving unwanted ads to them. “This…

The “clumps” of seaweed twice the width of the United States that trickle across the Caribbean and deliver copious amounts of algae to Florida’s beaches are also carrying unwelcome tourists: disease-causing bacteria. And the plastic debris we wash into the…

Russian AV vendor Kaspersky has released a new automated tool designed to help iOS users easily test whether they are infected with malware delivered via specific zero-click exploits. The news follows details of a new espionage operation Kaspersky dubbed Operation…

June 6, 2023Ravi LakshmananBrowser security/vulnerability Google released a security update Monday to fix a high-severity flaw in its Chrome web browser, saying the flaw is being actively exploited in the wild. tracked CVE-2023-3079, the vulnerability is described as a type…

82 million years — that’s the amount of lifespans black Americans lost to premature death between 1999 and 2020, new research shows. Experts on racial health disparities say the numbers aren’t entirely surprising, as they are a reminder of worrying…

North Korean state-sponsored hackers target think tanks, research centers, media outlets, and academics in the United States and South Korea for intelligence purposes. A warning issued last week said the infamous Kimski hacker group (also known as Velvet Cholima, Thallium,…