A China-linked threat cluster has been exploiting vulnerable Roundcube servers at U.S. and Canadian universities to steal credentials and deploy backdoor malware.
The campaign has been observed since May and focuses on physics and engineering departments, administrators and professors, as well as organizations involved in astrophysics, particle physics, or national security-related research.
Researchers at cybersecurity company Proofpoint are tracking the activity under the name ‘UNK_MassTraction’ and believe to be associated with a new threat cluster.
DuckDuckGo announced that its browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, including those shown before the video starts playing and during playback.
The feature is enabled by default in the latest versions of DuckDuckGo for iOS, Mac, and Windows, while Android users can enable it manually by going to Settings Ad Blocking.
YouTube is the world’s largest video platform, serving billions of users worldwide. Apart from YouTube Premium subscribers, free users are shown ads that help fund operational costs and creator payouts.
Malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) and the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivered stealer malware to developers and users of Paysafe, Skrill, and Neteller payment applications.
The threat actor published at least 17 malicious packages simultaneously, each tasked to exfiltrate credentials and access tokens to a command-and-control server hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
All three payment platforms are popular, with Paysafe being mostly used by e-commerce sites and online marketplaces, gaming platforms, travel businesses, and financial services or software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.
A threat actor has been targeting organizations across multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that ask Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey.
The attacker is taking advantage of a new capability Microsoft opened to administrators in May, allowing them to run “passkey registration campaigns” to entice users to enrol passkeys for more secure authentication.
The campaign has been running since April and involves calling targeted users and trying to convince them to register a new passkey under the attacker’s control.
Sensory processing assigns salience to environmental and internal stimuli, shaping behavior through learned associations. In alcohol use disorder (AUD), sensory cue processing is dysregulated, driving problematic drinking patterns and hyperkatifeia in abstinence. While visual, olfactory, and taste cues are known to influence AUD progression, the neurocircuit mechanisms that regulate sensory information in addiction remain poorly understood. The primary somatosensory cortex (S1) encodes tactile, thermal, proprioceptive, and nociceptive inputs and projects to higher-order regions involved in motor and emotional processing. One such target is the insula, a hub for interoceptive integration and affective regulation. We previously identified that insula neurons receiving S1 projections in turn extend into the extended amygdala, implicating this projection in emotional processing.
Did we find evidence of aliens in old astronomical records?
We might not be alone in the Universe. While combing through data from 1949, scientists spotted something impossible: strange, vanishing lights. They look exactly like satellites, but were documented decades before humanity ever launched anything into space. What could they be? Could this be evidence of advanced alien technology?
0:00 Evidence of Aliens? 1:18 Nuremberg Sighting 1561 3:45 Verifying Claims. 4:38 Vanishing Objects. 7:08 Is There Another Explanation? 8:31 Are They Real? 10:45 UAP and Nukes. 13:38 Another Explanation? 16:46 Academic Debate. 18:17 Is It Conclusive?
Have you ever wondered what existed before the Big Bang? For decades, scientists believed that this question had no answer. But new ideas in cosmology and theoretical physics are challenging that assumption.
In this video, we explore some of the most fascinating scientific theories about what may have happened before the birth of our universe. From quantum gravity and cosmic bounces to eternal inflation, multiverse models, and the possibility that our universe emerged from a previous cosmic cycle, these concepts push the boundaries of modern science.
Could time itself have existed before the Big Bang? Was our universe born from the collapse of another? Or is the Big Bang not the true beginning after all?
Join us as we dive into the latest research, thought-provoking hypotheses, and the biggest unanswered questions about the origin of reality.
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🫣🤫🤔 Let’s face it: we’re still a Type 0 civilization on the Kardashev Scale… though, to be honest, we’re much closer to the Kardashian Scale 😁 endless entertainment, constant distractions, and celebrity obsession. 🙈🙉🙊 A true Type I civilization would be focused on mastering energy, advancing science, and solving humanity’s biggest challenges. We’ve still got a long way to go! While most people’s main concerns revolve around material comfort, entertainment, and instant gratification, who truly cares about the fate of the most vulnerable? About social exclusion? Inequality? The pollution and destruction of our environment? Who cares about the massive extinction of million of species now underway? Who cares about sustainable development and peace for everyone? A true Type I civilization would be collectively focused on optimizing how it functions and shaping a better future for everyone. We’re still very, very far from that.
0:00 How we measure alien civilizations. 2:00 Kardashev scale conundrum. 3:25 New model using bitcoin and artificial intelligence. 4:08 Why bitcoin? The Karnac unit. 5:50 Energy required to change a unit of information — Landauer limit. 8:00 New definition for Type 2 civilization. 8:45 AI demand is changing energy consumption. 10:20 Energy limit speculations. 11:40 The great filter hypothesis. 12:30 The crossroads for humanity — conclusions.
