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  • North Korea tech workers found among staff at UK blockchain projects

    North Korea tech workers found among staff at UK blockchain projects 2025-04-02 at 06:05 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Fraudulent tech workers with ties to North Korea are expanding their infiltration operations to blockchain firms outside the US after increased scrutiny from authorities, with some having worked their way into UK crypto projects, Google says.…

  • Kentucky joins Vermont and South Carolina in dropping Coinbase staking suit

    Kentucky joins Vermont and South Carolina in dropping Coinbase staking suit 2025-04-02 at 06:05 By Cointelegraph by Jody McDonald Kentucky’s finance watchdog has dismissed its lawsuit against Coinbase over the exchange’s staking rewards program, following its peers in Vermont and South Carolina. Kentucky’s Department of Financial Institutions filed the stipulation to dismiss jointly with Coinbase…

  • Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

    Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work 2025-04-02 at 04:39 By Iain Thomson But his emails! Sharing them with Google! Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive…

  • Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival

    Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival 2025-04-02 at 04:06 By Thomas Claburn Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla’s open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View…

  • Bitcoin traders are overstating the impact of the US-led tariff war on BTC price

    Bitcoin traders are overstating the impact of the US-led tariff war on BTC price 2025-04-02 at 03:05 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Despite Bitcoin’s 2.2% gains on April 1, BTC (BTC) hasn’t traded above $89,000 since March 7. Even though the recent price weakness is often linked to the escalating US-led global trade war, several…

  • Lightmatter says it’s ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer

    Lightmatter says it’s ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer 2025-04-02 at 03:05 By Tobias Mann AI accelerators to see the light, literally Lightmatter this week unveiled a pair of silicon photonic interconnects designed to satiate the growing demand for chip-to-chip bandwidth associated with ever-denser AI deployments.… This article is an excerpt…

  • Not even Intel’s top bosses know what’s on CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s chopping block

    Not even Intel’s top bosses know what’s on CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s chopping block 2025-04-02 at 01:21 By Tobias Mann Chipzilla chief asked customers to be ‘brutally honest’ … which will lead to what changes, we wonder Vision  Not even Intel’s top brass know what’s on newly minted CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s chopping block.… This article is…

  • Microsoft Using AI to Uncover Critical Bootloader Vulnerabilities

    Microsoft Using AI to Uncover Critical Bootloader Vulnerabilities 2025-04-02 at 00:40 By Ryan Naraine Using the Security Copilot tool, Microsoft discovered 20 critical vulnerabilities in widely deployed open-source bootloaders. The post Microsoft Using AI to Uncover Critical Bootloader Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to…

  • Babuk2 Bjorka: The Evolution of Ransomware for ‘Data Commoditization’

    Babuk2 Bjorka: The Evolution of Ransomware for ‘Data Commoditization’ 2025-04-02 at 00:15 By John Basmayor An investigation that started with a tip from one of our threat intel sources about the revival of the Babuk (figure 1) threat group has led Trustwave SpiderLabs to uncover what appears to be a paradigm shift in the ransomware…

  • Ethereum’s weekly blob fees hit 2025 lows

    Ethereum’s weekly blob fees hit 2025 lows 2025-04-02 at 00:01 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell The Ethereum network’s main source of income from layer-2 (L2) scaling chains — “blob fees” — has sunk to the lowest weekly levels so far this year, according to data from Etherscan.  In the week ending March 30, Ethereum earned…

  • Andreessen Horowitz could help buy out TikTok’s Chinese investors ahead of Saturday deadline: report

    Andreessen Horowitz could help buy out TikTok’s Chinese investors ahead of Saturday deadline: report 2025-04-01 at 23:32 By Thomas Barrabi Andreesen Horowitz has reportedly joined negotiations to potentially buy out TikTok’s Chinese investors ahead of a crucial deadline this Saturday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York…

  • To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from Reg readers’ experiences

    To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from Reg readers’ experiences 2025-04-01 at 22:53 By Simon Sharwood Nobody’s tested the tapes this decade, thinks to back up the Recycle Bin, or takes care when using rm On Call Special  How can you avoid a disaster recovery disaster?… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original…

  • Undocumented Remote Access Backdoor Found in Unitree Go1 Robot Dog

    Undocumented Remote Access Backdoor Found in Unitree Go1 Robot Dog 2025-04-01 at 22:17 By Ryan Naraine The undocumented tunnel allows remote control all robot dogs on the tunnel network and use the vision cameras to see through their eyes. The post Undocumented Remote Access Backdoor Found in Unitree Go1 Robot Dog appeared first on SecurityWeek.…

  • Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake

    Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake 2025-04-01 at 21:50 By Tobias Mann The old naming convention didn’t just ‘screw up’ the NVLink nomenclature – it left money on the table Comment  At its GPU Technology Conference last month, Nvidia broke with convention by shifting its definition…

  • Meta trying to persuade Trump to fight European Union’s looming antitrust fine

    Meta trying to persuade Trump to fight European Union’s looming antitrust fine 2025-04-01 at 21:37 By Thomas Barrabi Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is asking the Trump administration to intervene as it faces a looming fine under the European Union’s strict antitrust rules. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New…

  • Over 1,500 PostgreSQL Servers Compromised in Fileless Cryptocurrency Mining Campaign

    Over 1,500 PostgreSQL Servers Compromised in Fileless Cryptocurrency Mining Campaign 2025-04-01 at 20:45 By Exposed PostgreSQL instances are the target of an ongoing campaign designed to gain unauthorized access and deploy cryptocurrency miners. Cloud security firm Wiz said the activity is a variant of an intrusion set that was first flagged by Aqua Security in…

  • Hackers Access 9,000 Domestic Violence Court Documents

    Hackers Access 9,000 Domestic Violence Court Documents 2025-04-01 at 20:35 View original post at vpnMentor A leak of 9,000 sensitive New South Wales court documents may expose the details of domestic violence incidents, including some affecting children. The New South Wales Attorney-General has warned potential victims to take extra precautions in the aftermath as police…

  • US lawmaker will reintroduce crypto retirement bill to help Trump agenda

    US lawmaker will reintroduce crypto retirement bill to help Trump agenda 2025-04-01 at 20:05 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright For the second time, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is set to reintroduce a bill aimed at allowing Americans to add cryptocurrency to their retirement savings plans. In a March 31 Fox News interview, Sen. Tuberville said…

  • Grayscale files S-3 for Digital Large Cap ETF

    Grayscale files S-3 for Digital Large Cap ETF 2025-04-01 at 20:05 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Asset manager Grayscale has filed to list an exchange-traded fund (ETF) holding a diverse basket of spot cryptocurrencies, US regulatory filings show. On April 1, Grayscale submitted an S-3 regulatory filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…

  • FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion

    FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion 2025-04-01 at 19:34 By Richard Speed New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is closing its investigations into both the SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explosion and Blue Origin New Glenn-1 landing failure.… This article is an excerpt…

  • Enterprise Gmail Users Can Now Send End-to-End Encrypted Emails to Any Platform

    Enterprise Gmail Users Can Now Send End-to-End Encrypted Emails to Any Platform 2025-04-01 at 19:33 By On the 21st birthday of Gmail, Google has announced a major update that allows enterprise users to send end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) to any user in any email inbox in a few clicks. The feature is rolling out starting today…

  • Bitcoin price flips volatile as traders eye $84.5K breakout

    Bitcoin price flips volatile as traders eye $84.5K breakout 2025-04-01 at 19:05 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) repeated earlier volatility at the April 1 Wall Street open as US trade tariff talk kept markets nervous. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin stays erratic ahead of crunch tariffs Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and…

  • Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

    Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition 2025-04-01 at 18:50 By Richard Speed Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer Microsoft will officially hit the half-century mark on Friday as the Windows giant turns 50 years old. What do you consider the highs and lows of…

  • Attackers are targeting CrushFTP vulnerability with public PoC (CVE-2025-2825)

    Attackers are targeting CrushFTP vulnerability with public PoC (CVE-2025-2825) 2025-04-01 at 18:49 By Zeljka Zorz Exploitation attempts targeting the CVE-2025-2825 vulnerability on internet-facing CrushFTP instances are happening, the Shadowserver Foundation has shared on Monday, and the attackers have been leveraging publicly available PoC exploit code. What can be done? CVE-2025-2825, affecting CrushFTP versions 10.0.0 through…

  • Hackers Looking for Vulnerable Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Portals

    Hackers Looking for Vulnerable Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Portals 2025-04-01 at 18:49 By Ionut Arghire GreyNoise warns of a coordinated effort probing the internet for potentially vulnerable Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect instances. The post Hackers Looking for Vulnerable Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Portals appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View…

  • OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation in round led by SoftBank

    OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation in round led by SoftBank 2025-04-01 at 18:20 By Thomas Barrabi Sam Altman’s OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a funding round led by investment giant SoftBank as it looks to stave off competition like Elon Musk’s xAI and China-based DeepSeek. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology…

  • Multiple altcoins crash on April Fools’ day, crypto market holds steady

    Multiple altcoins crash on April Fools’ day, crypto market holds steady 2025-04-01 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz A number of altcoins and memecoins saw a sharp sell-off on April Fools’ Day, April 1, with some tokens, including Act I The AI Prophecy, dropping nearly 60% in minutes. Act I The AI Prophecy (ACT),…

  • Bitcoin’s quantum-resistant hard fork is inevitable — It’s the only chance to fix node incentives

    Bitcoin’s quantum-resistant hard fork is inevitable — It’s the only chance to fix node incentives 2025-04-01 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Michael Tabone Opinion by: Dr. Michael Tabone, senior economist for Cointelegraph Bitcoin (BTC) has long been hailed as unbreakable and untouchable, a digital stronghold against the forces of change. Bitcoin’s bedrock of security is…

  • Bybit to shut down NFT marketplace as trading volumes decline

    Bybit to shut down NFT marketplace as trading volumes decline 2025-04-01 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has announced the shutdown of its non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace. In an April 1 announcement, Bybit warned its users that its NFT marketplace will cease operations on April 8, 2025, at 4:00 pm (UTC).…

  • Lucid PhaaS Hits 169 Targets in 88 Countries Using iMessage and RCS Smishing

    Lucid PhaaS Hits 169 Targets in 88 Countries Using iMessage and RCS Smishing 2025-04-01 at 17:55 By A new sophisticated phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called Lucid has targeted 169 entities in 88 countries using smishing messages propagated via Apple iMessage and Rich Communication Services (RCS) for Android. Lucid’s unique selling point lies in its weaponizing of…

  • Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we’ll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it

    Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we’ll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it 2025-04-01 at 17:32 By Thomas Claburn ‘There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework’, Thomson Reuters CPO tells us Interview  Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence,…

  • Coinbase sees worst quarter since FTX collapse amid industry bloodbath

    Coinbase sees worst quarter since FTX collapse amid industry bloodbath 2025-04-01 at 17:07 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Publicly traded US-based crypto exchange Coinbase saw its worst quarter since the collapse of crypto exchange FTX in 2022. Coinbase shares started 2025 trading at just over $257 on Jan. 2 and ended the quarter at a…

  • Hacker transfers $70M out of payment platform UPCX

    Hacker transfers $70M out of payment platform UPCX 2025-04-01 at 17:07 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Update April 1, 1:42 pm UTC: This article has been updated to add comments from Cyvers co-founder and chief technology officer Meir Dolev. An unauthorized party withdrew approximately $70 million in digital assets from open-source payment platform UPCX, according…

  • Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough

    Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough 2025-04-01 at 16:50 By Dan Robinson Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending More doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies…

  • Breaking: Ransomware Has Been Eradicated

    Breaking: Ransomware Has Been Eradicated 2025-04-01 at 16:18 By Monica White After decades of struggle, ransomware gangs have finally been vanquished This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

  • Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users

    Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users 2025-04-01 at 16:04 By Connor Jones The UK government must be thrilled Google will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it’ll do so without imposing any undue stress on IT…

  • Insider Threats: How Businesses Can Detect and Prevent Internal Cyber Risks

    Insider Threats: How Businesses Can Detect and Prevent Internal Cyber Risks 2025-04-01 at 16:04 By Barry O’Connell Insider threats are on the rise—understand how both intentional and unintentional risks impact your cybersecurity strategy. 40% of companies reported more insider-related incidents —learn how to detect and prevent insider threats before they cause damage. Strengthen your insider threat defense with a…

  • Building a reasonable cyber defense program

    Building a reasonable cyber defense program 2025-04-01 at 16:04 By Help Net Security If you do business in the United States, especially across state lines, you probably know how difficult it is to comply with U.S. state data privacy laws. The federal government and many U.S. state governments require you to implement “reasonable” cybersecurity controls…

  • ExaGrid announces three models and additional security features in software version update

    ExaGrid announces three models and additional security features in software version update 2025-04-01 at 16:04 By Industry News ExaGrid announced three new models: the EX20, EX81, and EX135 to its line of Tiered Backup Storage appliances, as well as the release of ExaGrid software version 7.2.0. ExaGrid tiered backup storage appliance models ExaGrid’s line of…

  • Stellar Cyber Open Cybersecurity Alliance enhances threat detection and response

    Stellar Cyber Open Cybersecurity Alliance enhances threat detection and response 2025-04-01 at 15:53 By Industry News Stellar Cyber launched its Open Cybersecurity Alliance based on its award-winning Open XDR platform. This initiative streamlines security operations, improves interoperability, and enhances threat detection and response for enterprises and MSSPs. The new alliance challenges the idea that in…

  • Security Operations Firm ReliaQuest Raises $500M at $3.4B Valuation

    Security Operations Firm ReliaQuest Raises $500M at $3.4B Valuation 2025-04-01 at 15:53 By Eduard Kovacs ReliaQuest has announced a new growth funding round that brings the total raised by the firm to over $830 million. The post Security Operations Firm ReliaQuest Raises $500M at $3.4B Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt…

  • Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft’s money into open source cloud federation tech

    Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft’s money into open source cloud federation tech 2025-04-01 at 15:36 By Richard Speed Fulcrum is region’s latest challenge to the hyperscalers An alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing €1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an…

  • Ransomware Group Takes Credit for National Presto Industries Attack

    Ransomware Group Takes Credit for National Presto Industries Attack 2025-04-01 at 15:16 By Ionut Arghire A ransomware group has claimed responsibility for a March cyberattack on National Presto Industries subsidiary National Defense Corporation. The post Ransomware Group Takes Credit for National Presto Industries Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek…

  • Metaplanet adds $67M in Bitcoin following 10-to-1 stock split

    Metaplanet adds $67M in Bitcoin following 10-to-1 stock split 2025-04-01 at 15:01 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Japan-based Metaplanet has expanded its Bitcoin holdings, purchasing 696 BTC for 10.152 billion yen ($67 million), the company announced in an April 1 post on X. The investment pushes Metaplanet’s total Bitcoin stash to 4,046 BTC, valued at…

  • Tether adds 8,888 Bitcoin in Q1 as holdings exceed $8.4B

    Tether adds 8,888 Bitcoin in Q1 as holdings exceed $8.4B 2025-04-01 at 15:01 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Tether, issuer of the USDT stablecoin, acquired 8,888 Bitcoin in the first quarter of 2025, according to onchain data. Onchain transaction data shows that Tether moved its newly acquired Bitcoin (BTC), worth roughly $750 million at the…

  • UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

    UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill 2025-04-01 at 14:56 By Connor Jones Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation’s full details for first time The UK’s technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government’s Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to…

  • Critical Vulnerability Found in Canon Printer Drivers

    Critical Vulnerability Found in Canon Printer Drivers 2025-04-01 at 14:55 By Eduard Kovacs Microsoft’s offensive security team warned Canon about a critical code execution vulnerability in printer drivers.  The post Critical Vulnerability Found in Canon Printer Drivers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to this headline:

  • Apple Backports Critical Fixes for 3 Live Exploits Impacting iOS and macOS Legacy Devices

    Apple Backports Critical Fixes for 3 Live Exploits Impacting iOS and macOS Legacy Devices 2025-04-01 at 14:35 By Apple on Monday backported fixes for three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild to older models and previous versions of the operating systems. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-24085 (CVSS…

  • Nearly 24,000 IPs Target PAN-OS GlobalProtect in Coordinated Login Scan Campaign

    Nearly 24,000 IPs Target PAN-OS GlobalProtect in Coordinated Login Scan Campaign 2025-04-01 at 14:35 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a spike in suspicious login scanning activity targeting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways, with nearly 24,000 unique IP addresses attempting to access these portals. “This pattern suggests a coordinated effort to probe network defenses…

  • China-Linked Earth Alux Uses VARGEIT and COBEACON in Multi-Stage Cyber Intrusions

    China-Linked Earth Alux Uses VARGEIT and COBEACON in Multi-Stage Cyber Intrusions 2025-04-01 at 14:35 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new China-linked threat actor called Earth Alux that has targeted various key sectors such as government, technology, logistics, manufacturing, telecommunications, IT services, and retail in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Latin American (LATAM) regions.…

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