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Why Alzheimer's Research Keeps Stalling Despite Decades of Investment
Freakonomics examines why Alzheimer's disease has proven so resistant to therapeutic progress despite massive funding and scientific attention. The dominant amy
ADT Confirms Breach After ShinyHunters Vishing Hit Okta SSO, Salesforce Data Stolen
ADT detected unauthorized access to customer data on April 20 and has now confirmed the intrusion after ShinyHunters listed the company on its leak site claimin
Firestarter backdoor on Cisco firewalls survives reboots, patches, and firmware updates
CISA and the UK's NCSC are warning about Firestarter, a custom ELF backdoor planted on Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall appliances running ASA or FTD. The im
Squid Genomes Reveal Deep-Sea Refuges Enabled Survival Through Mass Extinctions
Newly sequenced cephalopod genomes paired with global datasets indicate squid and cuttlefish originated in deep ocean environments more than 100 million years a
Willison ships a millisecond-to-time converter to stop doing the math himself
Simon Willison published a small utility that converts milliseconds into seconds and minutes, built because LLM tooling routinely emits prompt durations in raw
10,500 Zimbra servers still exposed as CISA confirms active XSS exploitation
Shadowserver reports more than 10,500 internet-facing Zimbra Collaboration Suite instances remain unpatched against CVE-2025-48700, a zero-click XSS flaw in the
26 Fake Crypto Wallet Apps Slipped Past Apple's App Store Review
Researchers have flagged 26 fraudulent cryptocurrency wallet applications that cleared Apple's notoriously strict App Store review process. The apps impersonate
AI Agent Memory Is the New Attack Surface — and It's Barely Defended
Persistent memory is what makes modern AI agents useful across sessions, but it is also what makes them durably exploitable. An attacker who plants a poisoned i
AI-Generated Phishing Tops Attacker Toolkits as Defenders Scramble
Phishing remains the dominant intrusion vector, but generative AI has sharpened its edge. Attackers now produce grammatically flawless, context-aware lures at s
Bitwarden CLI npm package hijacked in Checkmarx-linked supply chain attack
A malicious version 2026.4.0 of the @bitwarden/cli npm package sat in the registry for roughly 90 minutes on April 22 before being pulled. The tampered package
Bitwarden CLI Pulled Into Ongoing npm Supply Chain Campaign Tracked by Checkmarx
A malicious package impersonating the Bitwarden command-line client has surfaced as the latest artifact in a supply chain campaign that Checkmarx researchers ha
BlackFile extortion crew uses vishing to plunder Salesforce and SharePoint data
A financially motivated group calling itself BlackFile — also tracked as CL-CRI-1116, UNC6671, and Cordial Spider — has been hitting retail and hospitality targ