International law enforcement agencies cleaned nearly 15,000 malware-infected WordPress websites and took down more than 100 servers linked to the SocGholish botnet and the Evil Corp Russian cybercrime group.
This joint action (supported by Europol and Eurojust) was part of Operation Endgame, a major law enforcement operation targeting cybercrime now aimed at disrupting a key infection chain linked to Evil Corp.
Authorities from the Netherlands (NHCTU), Canada (RCMP), the United States (FBI), and Germany (BKA) cleaned SocGholish malware infections from 14,971 compromised WordPress websites and took 106 servers and domains offline.
Multiple WordPress plugins from ShapedPlugin were compromised in a supply chain attack that distributed infected releases to paying customers via the vendor’s official update system.
The malware delivered this way installed a fake plugin that impersonates WooCommerce components, steals credentials, and grants operators remote file-writing capabilities.
ShapedPlugin is a WordPress plugin vendor specializing in front-end/UI components and content display plugins, with a total active installation base of more than 400,000 for the free products.
Nintendo of America has confirmed to BleepingComputer that threat actors stole survey data from the third-party TinyPulse service used internally, but its systems were not compromised.
The company’s statement comes after claims from the Shadowbyt3$ “extortion-as-a-service” threat group that they exfiltrated sensitive data related to Nintendo of America employees.
“We are aware of an issue involving TinyPulse, a third-party service used for internal employee surveys at Nintendo of America,” stated Nintendo.
Nelson et al. present a detailed biomolecular study of how the APOE-R136S mutation protects against Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in mice and in patient-derived cells. Lots of data on glial contributions and transcriptomic changes. I see this as an excellent target for gene therapies aiming to combat AD. So do the folks at Lexeo Therapeutics (an exciting company you should check out!)
Nelson et al. report that the APOE-R136S mutation protects against APOE4-promoted Alzheimer’s disease pathologies, including phosphorylated Tau accumulation, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration, in mouse and human neuron models.
_____ This video is about how Divergence and Curl, along with the theory of Vector Analysis was discovered.
_____ Image Credits: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.… Approaching a Black Hole: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio — Caltech-IPAC/Robert Hurt, Caltech-IPAC/Keith Miller, NASA/JPL/Chelsea Gohd, Global Science and Technology, Inc./Ella Kaplan, NASA/GSFC/Mark SubbaRao Many more images that are public domain from wikimedia commons _____ Sources: Vector, A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation by Robyn Arianrhod A History of Vector Analysis by Michael J. Crose Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism + A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field Great videos by Kathy Loves Physics: • Quaternions are Amazing and so is William…, • How Maxwell’s Equations (and Quaternions)… _____ Corrections: 15:12 — on screen it should read “born in Scotland 1831″ instead of 1931 _____ Music: Epidemic Sound Animations created using Manim: https://www.manim.community/ Illustrations and Thumbnails: Christine Kosakowski This video was sponsored by Surfshark. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.… Approaching a Black Hole: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio — Caltech-IPAC/Robert Hurt, Caltech-IPAC/Keith Miller, NASA/JPL/Chelsea Gohd, Global Science and Technology, Inc./Ella Kaplan, NASA/GSFC/Mark SubbaRao.
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The “Godfather of AI” and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton just said the quiet part out loud: he believes today’s AI is already conscious — and that our entire model of the mind is “as wrong as the belief that people were designed by God.” In this clip from the Big Technology Podcast, Hinton dismantles the “stochastic parrot” argument (“I think that’s complete nonsense”), explains why understanding a question is impossible without real comprehension, and walks through the Copernicus → Darwin → AI arc that he says will end humanity’s belief that it is special. Then he turns to the company at the center of the AI safety debate: Anthropic. Hinton argues that a publicly traded AI lab has “a fiduciary duty to maximize profits for shareholders — as opposed to legally required to not wipe out human beings,” and warns that Anthropic is “caught in a bind” trying to stay safe while raising the money it needs to compete. He closes with the line every founder and regulator should hear: progress is the accelerator, regulation is the steering wheel — and the big labs are asking us to let them build a very fast car without one. Chapters: 0:00 “I believe they’re already conscious” 0:05 Why “stochastic parrot” is nonsense 1:40 We’re about to become the cat 3:40 Anthropic is caught in a bind 5:00 Regulation is the steering wheel, not the brake Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics and is often called the Godfather of AI for his foundational work on deep learning and backpropagation. He left Google in 2023 to speak freely about AI risk. 🎙️ Full episode (Big Technology Podcast): • AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Consciou… 📺 Frontier Cut curates the sharpest clips from the world’s top AI and business podcasts. New episodes weekly. 🔔 Subscribe: @frontiercut #GeoffreyHinton #AI #Anthropic #AISafety #Superintelligence #AGI #BigTechnologyPodcast
