May 2025

South Korean presidential front-runner proposes won-based stablecoin 2025-05-20 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas South Korea’s Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung proposed creating a stablecoin tied to the Korean won to prevent capital outflows and strengthen national financial sovereignty. Speaking during a recent policy discussion, Lee argued that a won-based stablecoin would allow South […]

Chinese Hackers Deploy MarsSnake Backdoor in Multi-Year Attack on Saudi Organization 2025-05-20 at 13:02 By Threat hunters have exposed the tactics of a China-aligned threat actor called UnsolicitedBooker that targeted an unnamed international organization in Saudi Arabia with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MarsSnake. ESET, which first discovered the hacking group’s intrusions targeting the entity

Torvalds’ typing taste test touches tactile tragedy 2025-05-20 at 12:47 By Rupert Goodwins There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on it Opinion  Linus Torvalds is the global hero most of the world doesn’t even know exists. There are no big movies about him, no best-selling biographies, no ardent Torvaldian

Go-Based Malware Deploys XMRig Miner on Linux Hosts via Redis Configuration Abuse 2025-05-20 at 11:52 By Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new Linux cryptojacking campaign that’s targeting publicly accessible Redis servers. The malicious activity has been codenamed RedisRaider by Datadog Security Labs. “RedisRaider aggressively scans randomized portions of the IPv4 space and uses

Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates 2025-05-20 at 11:33 By Connor Jones Researcher finds VoLTE metadata could be used to locate users within 100 meters UK telco Virgin Media O2 has fixed an issue with its 4G Calling feature that allowed users’ general location to be discerned by those

Sorry bears — Bitcoin analysis dismisses $107K BTC price double top 2025-05-20 at 11:02 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Key points: Bitcoin is not in line to cancel its attack on all-time highs, says the Bitcoin Fundamental Index (BFI). BTC price strength remains “intact,” says Swissblock Technologies, removing the risk of a double top. Historically,

Techies propose the Agent Name Service: It’s like DNS but for AI agents 2025-05-20 at 10:32 By Thomas Claburn Because nobody wants a random and unverified bot tickling their APIs To unify the proliferating set of would-be standards to govern AI agents, researchers have proposed yet another standard.… This article is an excerpt from The

Trump signs bill criminalizing nonsensenual AI deepfake porn 2025-05-20 at 10:04 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte US President Donald Trump has signed a bill criminalizing nonconsensual artificial intelligence-generated deepfake porn, which also requires websites to take down any illicit images within 48 hours. Trump signed the bill into law on May 19, known as the

Malicious PyPI Packages Exploit Instagram and TikTok APIs to Validate User Accounts 2025-05-20 at 10:03 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that act as checker tools to validate stolen email addresses against TikTok and Instagram APIs. All three packages are no longer available on PyPI. The

Foxconn chair predicts AI will end manufacturers’ search for cheap labor 2025-05-20 at 09:07 By Simon Sharwood Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork Computex  Foxconn chair Young Li has predicted the combination of generative AI and robotics will destroy low-end manufacturing jobs and called

Indonesia’s DigiAsia shares pop 90% on plan to raise $100M to buy Bitcoin 2025-05-20 at 08:05 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Shares in the Indonesian fintech firm DigiAsia Corp nearly doubled after the company said it plans to raise $100 million to seed its first of many Bitcoin buys. The Jakarta-based Nasdaq-listed company said on

How Schools Can Use Strategic Communication to Tackle Rising Cyber Threats 2025-05-20 at 08:04 By For school leaders, the challenges that come with cyberattacks aren’t just technical — they’re reputational. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source