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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new account takeover (ATO) campaign that leverages an open-source penetration testing framework called TeamFiltration to breach Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) user accounts.

The activity, codenamed UNK_SneakyStrike by Proofpoint, has targeted over 80,000 user accounts across hundreds of organizations’ cloud tenants since a surge in login attempts was observed in December 2024, leading to successful account takeovers.

“Attackers leverage Microsoft Teams API and Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers located in various geographical regions to launch user-enumeration and password-spraying attempts,” the enterprise security company said. “Attackers exploited access to specific resources and native applications, such as Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, and others.”

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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the National Center for Genomic Analysis and the University of Adelaide have created a single-cell RNA analysis method that is 47 times cheaper and more scalable than other techniques.

Single-cell RNA sequencing provides scientists with important information about in health and disease. However, the technique is expensive and often prohibits analysis of large numbers of cells.

Scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the National Center for Genomic Analysis and the University of Adelaide have created a method that combines microscopy with single-cell RNA analysis to overcome these limitations. The technique called Single-Cell Transcriptomics Analysis and Multimodal Profiling through Imaging (STAMP) can look at millions of single cells for a fraction of the cost of existing approaches.

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Scientists have demonstrated after decades of theorising how light interacts with vacuum, recreating a bizarre phenomenon predicted by quantum physics.

Oxford University physicists ran simulations to test how intense laser beams alter vacuum, a state once thought to be empty but predicted by quantum physics to be full of fleeting, temporary particle pairs.

Classical physics predicts that light beams pass through each other undisturbed. But quantum mechanics holds that even what we know as vacuum is always brimming with fleeting particles, which pop in and out of existence, causing light to be scattered.

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