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- Friday Squid Blogging: Neon Flying Squid (Schneier on Security)
The neon flying squid can fly in formation. The shoal of about 100 squid rose unexpectedly from a patch of the Pacific Ocean around 370 miles from Tokyo and glided near the boat for about 30 metres. The astonished researchers were the first - 14 Trojanized npm Packages Drop RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor With AI-Assisted C2 (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 - AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code (Schneier on Security)
This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of virus able to infect and replicate itself inside bacteria, destroying them from th - Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot (The Hacker News)
Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 thro
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