Fake CAPTCHA IRSF scam sends up to 60 SMS messages since June 2020, exploiting 17 countries and costing victims $30 per attack.
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PyPI package with 1.1M monthly downloads hacked to push infostealer
An attacker pushed a malicious version of the popular elementary-data package Python Package Index (PyPI) to steal sensitive developer data and cryptocurrency wallets.
The dangerous release is 0.23.3, and it extended to the Docker image due to the package’s workflow that creates the image from the code and uploads it to a container registry for deployment.
Community member crisperik spotted the malicious upload and opened an issue on the project’s GitHub on Saturday, alerting the maintainer and decreasing the exposure window.
Canada arrests three for operating “SMS blaster” device in Toronto
Canadian authorities have arrested three men for operating an “SMS blaster” device that pretends to be a cellular tower to send phishing texts to nearby phones.
Such tools trick devices into connecting to them by emitting signals that mimic a legitimate tower. Mobile phones in its range automatically link to them as there is stronger reception.
Once the connection is established, the operators of these rogue cellular base stations can push SMS messages directly to connected devices, which appear to come from trusted entities such as banks or the government.
Home security giant ADT data breach affects 5.5 million people
The ShinyHunters extortion group stole the personal information of 5.5 million individuals after breaching the systems of home security giant ADT earlier this month, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.
Founded in 1874 as American District Telegraph, ADT is the oldest and largest home security company in the United States, currently providing monitored security and smart home solutions to over 6 million residential and small-business customers.
ADT has previously disclosed two other data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 that exposed employee and customer information.
GlassWorm malware attacks return via 73 OpenVSX “sleeper” extensions
A new wave of the Glassworm campaign is targeting the OpenVSX ecosystem with 73 “sleeper” extensions that turn malicious after an update.
Six of the extensions have been activated and deliver malware, while researchers assess with high confidence that the rest of them are dormant or at least suspicious.
When initially uploaded, the extensions are benign but deliver the payload at a later stage, revealing the attacker’s true intention.
ZSNES Makes Comeback With Modern GPU Rewrite
ZSNES returns with new features.
Glitch News (@theglitchnews) • Instagram reel
16K likes, — theglitchnews on April 15, 2026: Cada era del cine tiene un momento en el que las nuevas herramientas rompen las barreras de la industria. Pasó con la llegada del sonido, el color y los efectos especiales por computadora (CGI). Hoy estamos viviendo ese mismo salto histórico gracias a la inteligencia artificial.
Lo divertido es que, en lugar de un drama profundo, lo primero que alguien decidió crear con este inmenso poder fue a Stephen Hawking en una silla de ruedas con láseres peleando contra Neil deGrasse Tyson por el control del multiverso. Los grandes cineastas de la historia estarían orgullosos… probablemente.
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Using Moon Regolith to Build Lunar Habitats
“Our results show that you can take a material that is inherently challenging and convert it into something structurally beneficial,” said Dr. Denizhan Yavas. [ https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/30488/using-moon-reg…habitats-2](https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/30488/using-moon-reg…habitats-2)
How can lunar dust (officially called regolith) be used to build future habitats on the Moon? This is what a recent study published in Advanced Engineering Materials hopes to address as a pair of researchers investigated how a novel technique for how lunar regolith could strengthen advanced composite materials. This study has the potential to help reduce the cost of shipping building materials to the Moon for future habitats by using available resources.
For the study, the researchers used lunar regolith simulant, a common substitute for lunar regolith since the latter is in low supply, to examine whether it could be used as a reinforcer for a common aerospace building material called polymer composites. The motivation for this study came from previous lunar regolith research that explored repelling lunar dust using nanoscale polymer surfaces. This is because lunar dust is highly abrasive, as the Apollo astronauts found out, and repelling it could prove beneficial for future astronauts.
Now, the researchers aspired to exploit this abrasiveness to their benefit for developing next generation building material on the Moon. In the end, the researchers found the lunar regolith simulant strengthened both the impact resistance and toughness of the polymers between 30 to 40 percent. Both attributes will be crucial to maintaining lunar habitats due to the Moon’s much harsher environment than Earth, specifically regarding micrometeorite strikes and solar radiation.
Realization experiences: a convergent account of insight and mystical experiences
We argue that the powerful transformative effects of mystical-type experiences can be understood using the same machinery that underlies insight problem solving, and that both mystical experiences and insight are species of a genus of “realization experiences”: experiences wherein some phenomenon or piece of information becomes suddenly experienced as real or true. Specifically, we argue that understanding both in this way allows us to model mystical experiences through the same combination of behavioral entropy and graph theory that have successfully been used to model insight problem solving. Starting from tension between novel information and prior representations, the agent destabilizes its representational network to allow it to enter a state of altered salience and enhanced associations to update the network.
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