April 2025

Earth Kurma Targets Southeast Asia With Rootkits and Cloud-Based Data Theft Tools 2025-04-28 at 13:00 By Government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia have become the target of a “sophisticated” campaign undertaken by a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group called Earth Kurma since June 2024. The attacks, per Trend Micro, have leveraged custom malware,

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Elon Musk’s X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66% 2025-04-28 at 12:32 By Paul Kunert Latest profit and loss accounts carry scars of ad spending exodus, but things improving. Maybe not everywhere though In the months following Tesla CEO and Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, now rebranded to X, business collapsed in

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Nexo back in the United States as Trump Jr. attends exclusive event 2025-04-28 at 12:02 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Cryptocurrency services platform Nexo announced that it is reentering the US market after facing previous regulatory challenges. According to an April 28 announcement, Nexo’s reentry event featured Donald Trump Jr., who said that he thinks

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Melania memecoin team sells $1.5M tokens as price pumps 21% 2025-04-28 at 12:02 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The team behind the Official Melania Meme (MELANIA) token sold more than $1.5 million of tokens over the past three days, suggesting a programmatic selling strategy that may add downside pressure to the token. The team behind

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Windows isn’t an OS, it’s a bad habit that wants to become an addiction 2025-04-28 at 11:34 By Rupert Goodwins Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there’s a problem Opinion  Windows is at that awkward stage any global empire has to go through. Around one

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WooCommerce Users Targeted by Fake Patch Phishing Campaign Deploying Site Backdoors 2025-04-28 at 11:34 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a “critical patch” but deploy a backdoor instead. WordPress security company Patchstack described the activity as sophisticated and a

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A ‘local top’ and $88K retest? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week 2025-04-28 at 11:02 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) is bracing for a major US macro data week as crypto market participants warn of serious volatility next. Bitcoin retests $92,000 after a promising weekly close, but traders still see a

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Hackers Exploit Critical Craft CMS Flaws; Hundreds of Servers Likely Compromised 2025-04-28 at 10:34 By Threat actors have been observed exploiting two newly disclosed critical security flaws in Craft CMS in zero-day attacks to breach servers and gain unauthorized access. The attacks, first observed by Orange Cyberdefense SensePost on February 14, 2025, involve chaining the

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Coinbase presses to axe rule banning SEC staff from holding crypto 2025-04-28 at 10:01 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Coinbase has urged the US Office of Government Ethics to remove a rule banning Securities and Exchange Commission staff from holding crypto. SEC staff need to use crypto to better understand how it works and the

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Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025 2025-04-28 at 09:50 By Simon Sharwood Redmond reckons $1.50/core/month hotpatch service is worth it to avoid eight Patch Tuesday scrambles each year Microsoft has announced that its preview of hotpatching for on-prem Windows Server 2025 will become a paid subscription service in July.… This article

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Trump-backed World Liberty Financial partners with Pakistan Crypto Council 2025-04-28 at 09:04 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial has signed a Letter of Intent with the Pakistan Crypto Council to accelerate crypto adoption in the South Asian country and one of the industry’s fastest-growing markets. Under the partnership, World Liberty

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China-based Huawei to test AI chip aiming to rival Nvidia: Report 2025-04-28 at 09:04 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Chinese tech giant Huawei has reportedly developed a powerful artificial intelligence chip that could rival high-end processors from US chip maker Nvidia. The Shenzhen-based Huawei is poised to start testing a new AI chip called the

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Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions 2025-04-28 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood And just-about bricks some of its older models everywhere Google has given up on smart thermostats in Europe.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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