GlassWorm uses a fake WakaTime VS Code extension to infect IDEs, deploy RATs, and steal data, prompting urgent credential rotation.

Google releases DBSC in Chrome 146 for Windows, binding cookies to devices to reduce session theft and prevent unauthorized access.

Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro v3.5.1.35 update distributed for 6 hours via compromised infrastructure, enabling RCE and data theft.

An NIH-supported research team developed a minimally invasive therapy that may help the heart recover from a heart attack.

Toward trial readiness in congenital myotonic dystrophy: a longitudinal cohort study of predictors of motor function in childhood.

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The interpretation that the subduction zone is winding down gets ahead of the science. What the new research actually shows is far more complex and interesting.

How does war affect a child’s senses? New research shows that 2023 war trauma caused atypical sensory processing in 48% of young survivors.

A researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia has made a simulated star nursery to produce the building blocks of life.

Administration of ketamine during general anesthesia preserved high-frequency EEG changes but lacked low-frequency modulation, suggesting neurophysiologic components of ketamine can be selectively altered.

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Question Are the neurophysiologic signatures of ketamine altered by removal of conscious awareness under general anesthesia?

Findings This cohort study was a secondary analysis of participant-level data from 3 prospective studies in which subanesthetic ketamine was administered with or without general anesthesia. Unconsciousness was associated with preserved βγ power modulation but loss of θ augmentation.

Meaning These findings suggest that unconsciousness from general anesthesia was associated with separation of the neurophysiologic components of ketamine effects, providing a method to explore the contributions of distinct aspects of ketamine physiology to therapeutic effects.

Hackers hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla, and pushed a malicious version with multiple backdoors.

The developer says that only the Pro version 3.5.1.35 of the plugin is affected and recommends switching immediately to the latest version, currently 3.5.1.36, or 3.5.1.34 and earlier.

Apart from installing backdoors in multiple locations, the malicious update created a hidden user with administrator permissions and stole sensitive data.