2025

Kraken expands in Europe with regulated crypto derivatives 2025-05-20 at 17:02 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced the launch of regulated derivatives trading on its platform under the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). According to a May 20 announcement, Kraken’s perpetual and fixed maturity crypto futures contracts will […]

Actors’ union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader 2025-05-20 at 17:02 By Iain Thomson I’m altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further The union representing American actors has complained about Llama Production, which is owned by Epic Games, over the use of generative AI in a new character for Fortnite.… This

Avalanche-backed Fusion launches with $100M to boost blockchain adoption 2025-05-20 at 16:17 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Avalanche, Helix and Faculty Group have launched Fusion, a new blockchain ecosystem aimed at driving real-world adoption through modular infrastructure tailored to specific industries. Built on Avalanche, Fusion features a two-layer architecture that includes composers, customizable layer-1 networks

India’s Supreme Court urges government to regulate cryptocurrency 2025-05-20 at 16:17 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski India’s Supreme Court questioned the government’s lack of regulatory clarity on cryptocurrencies despite imposing taxes on digital assets like Bitcoin. According to the Indian legal news outlet LawChakra, the country’s Supreme Court expressed concern over the increasing use of

Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell 2025-05-20 at 16:17 By Richard Speed Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows? Build  Microsoft has brought back an old favorite to the Windows command line interface: Edit, a text editor harking back to the halcyon days of DOS and text

Critical Software Vulnerabilities Rose 37% in 2024 2025-05-20 at 16:16 By A recent software vulnerability report by Action1 found a 61% year-over-year surge in discovered software vulnerabilities and a 96% spike in exploited vulnerabilities throughout 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

South Asian Ministries Hit by SideWinder APT Using Old Office Flaws and Custom Malware 2025-05-20 at 16:16 By High-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have emerged as the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as SideWinder. “The attackers used spear phishing emails paired with geofenced payloads to

AWS Default IAM Roles Found to Enable Lateral Movement and Cross-Service Exploitation 2025-05-20 at 16:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered risky default identity and access management (IAM) roles impacting Amazon Web Services that could open the door for attackers to escalate privileges, manipulate other AWS services, and, in some cases, even fully compromise AWS accounts.

Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets 2025-05-20 at 15:23 By Connor Jones Peter Green Chilled supplies all the major UK chains It’s more bad news for UK supermarkets with chilled and frozen food distribution business Peter Green Chilled confirming a ransomware attack with customers.… This article is an excerpt from

Binance seeks to dismiss $1.76B FTX lawsuit, blames SBF for collapse 2025-05-20 at 15:11 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Binance has filed a motion to dismiss a $1.76 billion lawsuit brought by the FTX estate, accusing the defunct crypto exchange of trying to deflect blame for its own failure. Filed on May 16 in the

Intel bets you’ll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros 2025-05-20 at 14:47 By Tobias Mann Behold ‘Project Battlematrix’ Computex  When it comes to AI accelerators, Intel isn’t very competitive, and its newly announced Battlemage workstation cards don’t do much to change that. But at least they’re cheap. Really cheap.… This

The Crowded Battle: Key Insights from the 2025 State of Pentesting Report 2025-05-20 at 14:46 By In the newly released 2025 State of Pentesting Report, Pentera surveyed 500 CISOs from global enterprises (200 from within the USA) to understand the strategies, tactics, and tools they use to cope with the thousands of security alerts, the