Termite ransomware breaches linked to ClickFix CastleRAT attacks

Ransomware threat actors tracked as Velvet Tempest are using the ClickFix technique and legitimate Windows utilities to deploy the DonutLoader malware and the CastleRAT backdoor.
Microsoft

AI as tradecraft: How threat actors operationalize AI

Threat actors are operationalizing AI to scale and sustain malicious activity, accelerating tradecraft and increasing risk for defenders, as illustrated by recent activity from North Korean groups ...
IEEE

Spam Call Detection with Hybrid Call ID Spoofing Detection and Cryptographic User Authentication

Abstract: Caller ID spoofing (CIS) remains a major challenge in combating spam calls, as attackers may generate spam even with seemingly legitimate identifiers. Existing CIS detection (CISD) ...
The New York Times

Grail’s Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in diagnoses at later stages of the disease. By Rebecca Robbins and Gina Kolata A ...
InfoWorld

Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...
IEEE

A Systematic Review on Detection, Repair, and Explanation of Vulnerabilities in Source Code Using Large Language Models

Abstract: Software vulnerabilities pose critical risks to the security and reliability of modern systems, requiring effective detection, repair, and explanation techniques. Large Language Models (LLMs ...
GitHub

Flash LiDAR Vehicle Detection with MATLAB Dataset and Deep Learning Benchmarks

This repository provides code and workflows to test several state-of-the-art vehicle detection deep learning algorithms —including YOLOX, SalsaNext, RandLA-Net, and VoxelRCNN— on a Flash Lidar dataset ...