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Fake Google Security site uses PWA app to steal credentials, MFA codes
A phishing campaign is using a fake Google Account security page to deliver a web-based app capable of stealing one-time passcodes, harvesting cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and proxying attacker traffic through victims’ browsers.
The attack leverages Progressive Web App (PWA) features and social engineering to deceive users into believing they are interacting with a legitimate Google Security web page and inadvertently installing the malware.
PWAs run in the browser and can be installed from a website, just like a standalone regular application, which is displayed in its own window without any visible browser controls.
Florida woman imprisoned for massive Microsoft license fraud scheme
A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in prison for running a massive years-long scheme to traffic thousands of stolen Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels.
52-year-old Heidi Richards (also known as Heidi Hastings, Heidi Shaffer, and Heidi Williams), who operated an e-commerce business called Trinity Software Distribution, was also ordered to pay a $50,000 fine.
COA labels are small stickers that authenticate software and carry unique product key codes used to activate products distributed on physical media, such as Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office productivity suite.
Anthropic confirms Claude is down in a worldwide outage
Claude appears to be having a major outage, with elevated errors reported across all platforms.
The incident was flagged on March 2, 2026 at 11:30 UTC, and it’s impacting users broadly rather than being limited to one app or region.
According to Anthropic’s status updates, the first “Investigating” notice went out at 11:49 UTC, followed by a 12:06 UTC update saying the team was still investigating.
QuickLens Chrome extension steals crypto, shows ClickFix attack
A Chrome extension named “QuickLens — Search Screen with Google Lens” has been removed from the Chrome Web Store after it was compromised to push malware and attempt to steal crypto from thousands of users.
QuickLens was initially published as a Chrome extension that lets users run Google Lens searches directly in their browser. The extension grew to roughly 7,000 users and, at one point, received a featured badge from Google.
However, on February 17, 2026, a new version 5.8 was released that contained malicious scripts that introduced ClickFix attacks and info-stealing functionality for those using the extension.
Tardigrades Reveal Risks and Rewards of Martian Regolith
“It seems that there’s something very damaging in MGS-1 that can dissolve in water — maybe salts or some other compound,” said Dr. Corien Bakermans. [ https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/30263/tardigrades-re…regolith-2](https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/30263/tardigrades-re…regolith-2)
How can Martian regolith (often mistakenly called “soil”) be used to benefit human exploration? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how tardigrades (also called “water bears”) could be used to sterilize the Martian regolith for improved functionality, specifically for growing plants. This study has the potential to help scientists, engineers, mission planners, and future astronauts develop new methods for eventually living on Mars and long-term settlements.
For the study, the researchers examined states of two types of tardigrades responded to long-term exposure to Martian regolith simulant known as MGS-1 and OUCM-1, which the researchers note are like the regolith examined by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The purpose of a simulant is necessary since Mars regolith samples has never been returned to Earth. Tardigrades are known for their extreme resilience and scientists have established they have two types of states: active and dormant, as opposed to alive and dead.
The goal of the study was to ascertain if tardigrades could be used to improve the chemical composition of Martian regolith. However, the researchers discovered that the MGS-1 caused significant declines in tardigrade activity after only a few days. The team mitigated this by washing the simulant and introduced new tardigrades, resulting in improved numbers. For OUCM-1, the researchers found this simulant also caused increased tardigrade dormancy while one type of tardigrade was less damaging.
Humanization and engineering of protective antibodies targeting severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus Gn protein
Ren et al. humanize and structurally optimize a chimeric anti-SFTSV antibody, generating variants with markedly enhanced neutralization potency by strengthening binding to recombinant Gn and intact virions, providing full in vivo protection and establishing a generalizable framework for therapeutic antibody engineering.