Category: Technology

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — May 29, 2025 — Pakistani authorities have arrested 21 individuals linked to the notorious cybercrime service known as Heartsender, a platform that has been facilitating spam and malware distribution for over a decade. The arrests were made following coordinated raids conducted by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) in Lahore’s Bahria […]

May 29, 2025 — Amid widespread layoffs in the consulting industry driven by automation and AI adoption, a growing number of consultants are creating unauthorized artificial intelligence tools—dubbed “Shadow AI” copilots—in a bid to retain relevance and secure their positions. The phenomenon is creating significant security blind spots and governance challenges for enterprise IT departments […]

ILL operations are governed by protocols signed by the Associate Countries. The sixth ILL Protocol was signed by the governments of the Associate Countries in 2021, extending the original 1967 Intergovernmental Convention for a further 10-year period, from 2024 to 2033. The protocol represents a global investment of about €1 billion. However, operation beyond the end […]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s National Cyber Emergency Response Team (NCERT) has issued an urgent advisory, urging all citizens to immediately change their passwords following the discovery of a massive global data breach. According to NCERT, the breach involves an infostealer database recently uncovered, which has exposed more than 184 million unique account credentials. The database […]

On May 22, hackers exploited a vulnerability in the Cetus Protocol, a decentralized liquidity provider on the SUI blockchain, resulting in the theft of approximately $223 million in digital assets. The breach, attributed to a flaw in an open-source library used by Cetus’ smart contract for liquidity pools, allowed the attackers to manipulate pool pricing […]

Pikselstock/Shutterstock In May 2025, a post asking “[Am I the asshole] for telling my husband’s affair partner’s fiancé about their relationship?” quickly received 6,200 upvotes and more than 900 comments on Reddit. This popularity earned the post a spot on Reddit’s front page of trending posts. The problem? It was (very likely) written by artificial […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal grand jury has returned a four-count superseding indictment charging 12 additional individuals, including U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, for their alleged roles in a cyber-enabled racketeering enterprise responsible for stealing over $263 million in cryptocurrency. The charges, unsealed today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, expand upon […]

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler has uncovered a massive data breach involving an unsecured online database containing more than 184 million unique account credentials. The exposed information, stored in plain text and accessible without any password protection or encryption, includes usernames, passwords, email addresses, and URLs associated with major platforms such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, […]

Children in Serbia may soon be learning basic literacy and maths with the help of a friendly virtual alpaca called Alpa, thanks to EU-funded research that is improving access to first-rate educational technology across Europe. Alpa is a key, albeit non-human, member of the team at ALPA Kids, an education technology company based in Estonia […]

Don Mammoser/Shutterstock In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises – but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story. Those noises are the calls of Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii), used to warn others about the presence of predators. […]