New Forensic Technique Uncovers Hidden Trails Left by Hackers Exploiting RDP

This creates a timeline of connection attempts that helps investigators map brute-force activities and successful breaches.

Hackers are hiding powerful info-stealing malware in fake free VPNs downloaded from GitHub, don’t get tricked | TechRadar

Once executed, the dropper uses a multi-stage attack chain involving obfuscation, dynamic DLL loading, memory injection, and abuse of legitimate Windows tools like MSBuild.exe and aspnet_regiis.exe to maintain stealth and persistence.

ChatGPT hallucinated about music app Soundslice so often, the founder made the lie come true | TechCrunch

Earlier this month, Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, solved a mystery that had been plaguing him for weeks. Weird images of what were clearly ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site.

Nvidia beats Apple and Microsoft to become the world’s first $4 trillion public company | CNN Business

Nvidia beat Apple and Microsoft to the $4 trillion mark. Apple entered this year as the world’s most valuable company at just about $3.9 trillion before tumbling in recent months amid President Donald Trump’s tariff turmoil. Nvidia and Microsoft traded places as the world’s most valuable company in recent months, before Nvidia surged ahead to reach the $4 trillion mark first.

Eavesdropping on MEMS Microphones With a Radio – Hackster.io

No modifications to the hardware or software are required — any phone, computer, or other device with this type of microphone is vulnerable right out of the box. And you may not even need to explicitly enable the microphone because certain commonly used apps, such as Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, and Google Drive, already turn it on under certain conditions.

How to Use Windows Reliability Monitor

This native tool provides a user-friendly interface to aid in identifying and fixing system crashes, Windows update issues, hardware, and driver problems.

FAA to eliminate floppy disks & Win95 in air traffic control systems.

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration just outlined an ambitious goal to upgrade the U.S.’s air traffic control (ATC) system and bring it into the 21st century. According to NPR, most ATC towers and other facilities today feel like they’re stuck in the 20th century, with controllers using paper strips and floppy disks to transfer data, while their computers run Windows 95. While this likely saved them from the disastrous CrowdStrike outage that had a massive global impact, their age is a major risk to the nation’s critical infrastructure, with the FAA itself saying that the current state of its hardware is unsustainable.

How far will AI go to defend its own survival?

Recent tests by independent researchers, as well as one major AI developer, have shown that several advanced AI models will act to ensure their self-preservation when they are confronted with the prospect of their own demise — even if it takes sabotaging shutdown commands, blackmailing engineers or copying themselves to external servers without permission.

The Ultimate Linux Command Cheat Sheet for Data Engineers and Analysts – DEV Community

Mastering Linux commands is more than just a technical skill—it’s a force multiplier. With a few keystrokes, you can diagnose memory issues, parse millions of lines of logs, schedule ETL jobs, secure connections to remote servers, and compress terabytes of data for transfer.

1.7 billion passwords leaked on dark web and why yours is at risk | Fox News

A new report shows just how out of control the problem has become, with infostealer activity jumping 500% in just one year, harvesting more than 1.7 billion fresh credentials.