October 2025

The Death of the Security Checkbox: BAS Is the Power Behind Real Defense 2025-10-30 at 15:46 By Security doesn’t fail at the point of breach. It fails at the point of impact.  That line set the tone for this year’s Picus Breach and Simulation (BAS) Summit, where researchers, practitioners, and CISOs all echoed the same

Standard Chartered sees $2T in tokenized RWAs by 2028, matching stablecoins 2025-10-30 at 15:38 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The $300 billion stablecoin market capitalization pushed DeFi into a “self-sustaining cycle” of growth, according to the investment bank’s head of research. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Azure’s bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe 2025-10-30 at 13:54 By Richard Speed Time to put eggs in more than one basket? As Azure staggers back to its feet following an hours-long outage last night, British and European businesses are questioning their reliance on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.… This article is an

DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage 2025-10-30 at 13:34 By Simon Sharwood We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time IBM has one-upped AWS and Microsoft by reporting an outage in one of its

Determining the Credibility of Online Threats in a World of Digital Noise 2025-10-30 at 13:34 By While many online threats are nothing more than idle chatter, pranks, or cries for attention, others are chillingly real — and the challenge is determining which is which before tragedy strikes. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to

Bitcoin spot volume passes $300B in October as traders show ‘healthy’ pivot 2025-10-30 at 13:27 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin spot volume spiked after the “Uptober” BTC price dip as traders sought less risky environments, according to new research. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Postcode Lottery’s lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other’s info 2025-10-30 at 12:54 By Connor Jones Biz says ‘technical error’ caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users A major UK lottery organization says it has resolved a technical error that exposed customer data to other users.… This article is an

ThreatsDay Bulletin: DNS Poisoning Flaw, Supply-Chain Heist, Rust Malware Trick and New RATs Rising 2025-10-30 at 12:54 By The comfort zone in cybersecurity is gone. Attackers are scaling down, focusing tighter, and squeezing more value from fewer, high-impact targets. At the same time, defenders face growing blind spots — from spoofed messages to large-scale social

Ethereum fees hover near pennies as daily transactions top 1.6M 2025-10-30 at 12:23 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Ethereum transaction fees remain at near all-time lows despite peak network activity that saw daily transactions top 1.6 million for the first time since October’s market crash. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

PhantomRaven Malware Found in 126 npm Packages Stealing GitHub Tokens From Devs 2025-10-30 at 12:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered yet another active software supply chain attack campaign targeting the npm registry with over 100 malicious packages that can steal authentication tokens, CI/CD secrets, and GitHub credentials from developers’ machines. The campaign has been codenamed

France jacks into the Matrix for state messaging – and pays too 2025-10-30 at 12:15 By Richard Speed Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount Comment  Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo.… This article is an

OpenAI eyes trillion-dollar IPO amid global AI arms race: Report 2025-10-30 at 11:48 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai OpenAI is preparing a trillion-dollar IPO in 2026 to fund ChatGPT’s next evolution as global AI competition intensifies, Reuters reported. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

There’s mushroom for improvement in fungal computing 2025-10-30 at 11:30 By Dan Robinson Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors US boffins claim early tests indicate edible mushrooms can function as organic memory devices, though significant challenges remain before the lab experiment can be turned into something practical.… This article