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A fake 7-Zip website is distributing a trojanized installer of the popular archiving tool that turns the user’s computer into a residential proxy node. Residential proxy networks use home user devices to route traffic with the goal of evading blocks and performing various malicious activities such as credential stuffing, phishing, and malware distribution. The new campaign became better known after a user reported that they downloaded a malicious installer from a website impersonating the 7-Zip project while following instructions in a YouTube tutorial on building a PC system. BleepingComputer can confirm that the malicious website, 7zip[.]com, is still live. The threat actor registered the…
Back in October, Nothing unveiled Essential Apps – AI-generated mini-apps and widgets based on prompts, that will live on your device and can be shared with others through Nothing’s Playground community platform. Today, Nothing is announcing the rollout of Essential Apps Beta, following the Alpha release from late 2025, which was only available for a small group of early adopters. With the Beta, access is gradually expanding through a waitlist, with users added in batches. Create apps shaped exactly around your specific needs and context.That’s what Essential Apps are.You describe what you need. AI builds it. It appears on your…
The European Commission on Tuesday announced its unconditional approval of Google’s proposed $32 billion acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz under the EU Merger Regulation. The EU has conducted a review and concluded that the deal raises no competition concerns in the European Economic Area (EEA). This clearance allows the transaction to proceed without remedies or conditions, following an assessment that found no significant impact on competition in relevant markets. The Commission noted: “The Commission gathered extensive feedback from customers and rival suppliers of cloud security and cloud infrastructure services, in order to investigate the impact of all material aspects…
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! We all know prompt tracking is directional. The most effective way to reduce noise is to track prompts based on personas. This week, I’m covering: Why AI personalization makes traditional “track the SERP” models incomplete, and how synthetic personas fill the gap. The Stanford validation data showing 85% accuracy at one-third the cost, and how Bain cut research time by 50-70%. The five-field persona card structure and how to generate 15-30 trackable prompts per segment across intent levels. The best way to make your prompt tracking much more…
Natural language for network engineers Beevers explained that network operations teams face two fundamental barriers to automation. First, they lack accurate data about their infrastructure. Second, they aren’t software developers and shouldn’t have to become them. “These are not software developers. They are network engineers or IT infrastructure engineers,” Beevers said. “The big realization for us through the copilot journey is they will never be software developers. Let’s stop trying to make them be. Let’s let these computers that are really good at being software developers do that, and let’s let the network engineers or the data center engineers be really good…
An AI engine optimization audit evaluates brand visibility, accuracy, and citations in AI-powered search engines. It highlights how a brand appears across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Bing Copilot, and identifies gaps in the facts, descriptions, and links these systems rely on. In contrast, a traditional SEO audit focuses on website rankings and technical health in classic search engines.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an emergent ransomware family dubbed Reynolds that comes embedded with a built-in bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) component for defense evasion purposes within the ransomware payload itself. BYOVD refers to an adversarial technique that abuses legitimate but flawed driver software to escalate privileges and disable Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions so that malicious activities go unnoticed. The strategy has been adopted by many ransomware groups over the years. “Normally, the BYOVD defense evasion component of an attack would involve a distinct tool that would be deployed on the system prior to the…
(This appeared as an op-ed published Friday, Feb. 6 in the Daily Journal, a California legal newspaper.) Section 230, “the 26 words that created the internet,” was enacted 30 years ago this week. It was no rush-job—rather, it was the result of wise legislative deliberation and foresight, and it remains the best bulwark to protect free expression online.The internet lets people everywhere connect, share ideas and advocate for change without needing immense resources or technical expertise. Our unprecedented ability to communicate online—on blogs, social media platforms, and educational and cultural platforms like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive—is not an accident.…
Since the dawn of SEO, Google has told us that if we build high-quality content, clicks will come. They’ve developed frameworks like EEAT and rolled out countless core updates, many with the goal of rooting out low-quality content and rewarding sites that “do it right.” So why, in the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-six, do we still see so many out-of-date, copycat, and generally low-quality pages get high-profile positions in AI Overviews and organic rankings? Let’s zoom in a bit here to compare Google’s recent advice on getting visibility in search and the realities of what we’re seeing…