North Korean hackers are running tailored campaigns using AI-generated video and the ClickFix technique to deliver malware for macOS and Windows to targets in the cryptocurrency sector. The threat actor’s goal is financial, as suggested by the role of the tools used in an attack on a fintech company investigated by Google’s Mandiant researchers. During the response engagement, the researchers found seven distinct macOS malware families and attributed the attack to UNC1069, a threat group they’ve been tracking since 2018. Infection chain The attack had a strong social engineering component as the victim was contacted over the Telegram messaging service from a compromised…
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Home > Piracy > Despite being sued by Spotify and several record labels, Anna’s Archive has silently begun releasing the actual music files from its massive Spotify scrape. The shadow library’s backend torrent index now lists dozens of new torrents containing approximately 2.8 million tracks totaling roughly 6 terabytes of audio data. This marks a significant escalation in the already historic standoff with the music industry. Anna’s Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources. However, last December, the site announced that it had also backed up Spotify,…
A few months ago, I took a step I should’ve taken several years ago and switched the rest of my immediate family to Pixel phones. My husband was already sporting and loving his Pixel 7 Pro, and my mother-in-law was using my old Pixel 6a, but my mom, dad, and aunt were all still carrying older OnePlus or Samsung phones. Since they’re not interested in state-of-the-art tech, I dug into the archive and found a Pixel 7a, 6 Pro, and 7 Pro to upgrade them to.Going in, I knew this would be a big departure for them. It would’ve been…
Fortinet on Tuesday published eight advisories describing security defects addressed in FortiAuthenticator, FortiClient for Windows, FortiGate, FortiOS, and FortiSandbox, including two high-severity issues. The most severe of these is CVE-2025-52436, an XSS bug in FortiSandbox that could be exploited via crafted requests to execute commands without authentication. Next in line is CVE-2026-22153, an authentication bypass in FortiOS that can be exploited under certain configurations to bypass LDAP authentication of Agentless VPN or FSSO policy. The company also rolled out fixes for medium-severity flaws in FortiOS, FortiAuthenticator, FortiGate, and FortiClient for Windows that could be exploited to obtain sensitive information, smuggle…
If you’ve been managing PPC accounts for any length of time, you don’t need a research report to tell you something has changed. You see it in the day-to-day work: GCLIDs missing from URLs. Conversions arriving later than expected. Reports that take longer to explain while still feeling less definitive than they used to. When that happens, the reflex is to assume something broke – a tracking update, a platform change, or a misconfiguration buried somewhere in the stack. But the reality is usually simpler. Many measurement setups still assume identifiers will reliably persist from click to conversion, and that…
On Monday, Discord announced its plan to begin rolling out global mandatory age verification. Starting in March, new and existing accounts will start moving over to a “teen-by-default” setting, which will lock certain chats and features away until either the account’s owner proves they’re an adult or Discord’s AI age prediction figures it out for them. Here’s what you’ll lose when age verification goes into effect, how to get it back—and, for good measure, a look at your other options.What you’ll lose if Discord doesn’t know your ageIn its announcement, Discord said the new age verification settings will start with…
Interviewer: Jillian York Yazan Badran is an assistant professor in international media and communication studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a researcher at the Echo research group. His research focuses on the intersection between media, journalism and politics particularly in the MENA region and within its exilic and diasporic communities. *This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Jillian York: What does free speech or free expression mean to you? Yazan Badran: So I think there are a couple of layers to that question. There’s a narrow conception of free speech that is related to, of course, your…
Home Assistant is incredibly powerful, but there are so many features that navigating your way through all the menus can be a chore. You can do things much faster if you stick to using your keyboard. Open Quick search instantly In Home Assistant 2026.2, the Quick bar was replaced with a new Quick search function that you can use to search for devices, entities, commands, and more. Previously, you could open specific modes such as the Entity Filter, Device Filter, or Command Palette by pressing single-key shortcuts. The Quick bar itself would only show one mode at a time. To…
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as UNC1069 has been observed targeting the cryptocurrency sector to steal sensitive data from Windows and macOS systems with the ultimate goal of facilitating financial theft. “The intrusion relied on a social engineering scheme involving a compromised Telegram account, a fake Zoom meeting, a ClickFix infection vector, and reported usage of AI-generated video to deceive the victim,” Google Mandiant researchers Ross Inman and Adrian Hernandez said. UNC1069, assessed to be active since at least April 2018, has a history of conducting social engineering campaigns for financial gain using fake meeting invites and posing as…
This week’s Ask an SEO question is from an anonymous reader who asks: “Should I be optimizing content differently for LinkedIn, Reddit, and traditional search engines? I’m seeing these platforms rank highly in Google results, but I’m not sure how to create a cohesive multi-platform SEO approach.” Yes, you should absolutely be optimizing your content differently based on where you publish it, where you want to reach the audience, and the way they engage. This includes what you put out, what goes on your website, and what exists in your metadata. Each platform has a different user experience, and the…