Security Boulevard

China-nexus Threat Actor Targets Persian Gulf Region With PlugX

IntroductionOn March 1, 2026, ThreatLabz observed new activity from a China-nexus threat actor targeting countries in the Persian Gulf region. The activity took place within the first 24 hours of the ...

Hackers Pose as IT Staff in Microsoft Teams to Install Malware

Hackers are impersonating IT staff in Microsoft Teams to trick employees into installing malware, giving attackers stealthy ...
Security Boulevard

Middle East Conflict Fuels Opportunistic Cyber Attacks

IntroductionThreat actors often take advantage of major global events to fuel interest in their malicious activities. Zscaler ThreatLabz is diligently tracking a surge in cybercriminal activity that ...
The Hacker News

DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files

Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of "disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features" to bypass ...
Ars Technica

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...
Live Science

NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet

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IEEE

Shellcode Generation: A Resource Efficient Approach using Fine-tuned LLMs

Abstract: In order to create better shellcode for offensive cybersecurity, this study investigates the use of large language models (LLMs) such as Mistral and Llama. It focuses on LLM optimizations to ...
Vogue

Are Sample Sales Good for Brands?

The amount of noise The Row’s annual sample sale generated last weekend was perhaps antithetical to the brand’s ultimate quiet luxury status. But what else could be expected? The brand’s legions of ...
Edutopia

Solidifying Core Concepts With Examples and Non-Examples

In Sarah Yuska’s sixth-grade science class at Monocacy Middle School in Frederick, Maryland, students are just finishing up learning about body systems—respiratory, circulatory, skeletal, and so on.
CSOonline

XWorm campaign shows a shift toward fileless malware and in-memory evasion tactics

In a newly disclosed multi-stage threat campaign, attackers were seen skipping disk and leaning on in-memory tricks to deliver the XWorm remote access trojan (RAT). According to Forcepoint Labs’ ...
Cheapism

Costco Implements Strict New Free Sample Policy

There are all kinds of things to love about shopping at Costco, including the reasonable prices, generous return policy, and grabbing a $1.50 hot dog combo on the way out. But the best thing might ...