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The Gentlemen ransomware now uses SystemBC for bot-powered attacks
A SystemBC proxy malware botnet of more than 1,570 hosts, believed to be corporate victims, has been discovered following an investigation into a Gentlemen ransomware attack carried out by a gang affiliate.
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation emerged around mid-2025 and provides a Go-based locker that can encrypt Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems, and a C-based locker for ESXi hypervisors.
Last December, it compromised one of Romania’s largest energy providers, the Oltenia Energy Complex. Earlier this month, The Adaptavist Group disclosed a breach that Gentlemen ransomware listed on its data leak site.
China’s Apple App Store infiltrated by crypto-stealing wallet apps
A set of 26 malicious apps on Apple App Store impersonate popular wallets, such as Metamask, Coinbase, Trust Wallet, and OneKey, to steal recovery or seed phrases and drain them of cryptocurrency assets.
The threat actor used multiple methods to imitate official products, including typosquatting and fake branding, to lure users in China into downloading them.
Because such apps are restricted in the country, the attacker published them as games or calculator apps, likely in the hope of being perceived by the users as a trick to bypass the bans in the country.
US Army Tests Autonomous Golden Shield Counter-drone System in Live-fire Exercise
The U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division has completed the latest phase of its counter drone experimentation, a live-fire exercise from April 7–9 testing cUAS systems for its “Golden Shield” counter-drone concept for an armored formation. This significant step in the division’s Pegasus Charge initiative incorporated autonomous cUAS battlefield effectors for the first time, advancing efforts to protect U.S. forces from the growing threat of small unmanned aerial systems. Exercise Golden Shield integrated advanced sensors, kinetic and non-kinetic effectors and command-and-control systems to create an autonomous cohesive defense against small UAS. The effort, led by the 1st Cavalry Division in collaboration with Army DEVCOM and industry partners, aims to enhance the protection of armored vehicles and their crews while maneuvering. The system links sensors and weapons on tactical vehicles to automatically detect, track and engage threats, significantly shortening the sensor-to-shooter timeline and reducing cognitive load.
“The intent is to take these systems we tested this week and begin to integrate them within our armored formations’ training,” said Maj. Kevin Correa, 1st Cavalry Division’s air and missile defense chief. “In that way, we are able to fully exercise not only the systems, but the tanker’s ability to manage these systems while conducting their normal operations.”
“The future is formation-based layered protection, and this is the start of that,” said Alfred Grein, executive director for Research and Technology Integration for the U.S. Army Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center. “Some (of the systems) are more mature than others. But understand that’s part of why we do experiments to determine what we think is ready to hand-off to Soldiers in the field environment.”
Thales Secures Military Navigation in Electronic Warfare Environments with the TopStar Smart Receiver
Thales launches the TopStar Smart Receiver, a three-in-one ultra-compact solution providing land forces with resilient positioning, navigation and timing capabilities, while maintaining radio communications in increasingly contested electronic warfare environments. TopStar Smart Receiver can be integrated into land vehicles, drones and munitions. Produced entirely within a sovereign European industrial base, TopStar Smart Receiver is assembled at Thales’ site in Valence, France. This solution is already available for testing in real-world conditions.
Go to Space with Frank White
A long time ago I became friends with a guy named Frank White. He was working with president Reagan’s National Commission on Space, and my friend Dave Brody and I were shooting a documentary where we were interviewing some of the Commission members. We hit it off immediately. Fellow O’Neillians all. Since then Frank has become a close buddy and ally in the cause of the Space Revolution. Our styles couldn’t be more different I am the Charge the enemy! guy and he is a gentle, quiet human being. Along the way to the Frontier, he coined the term OverView Effect, as a means of expressing what happens to people when they fly above the MotherWorld and gaze back at her. He nailed it with that one. Dude’s got himself a real-live “meme”! And I couldn’t be happier. So now it’s time to get the man up there so he can get “Effected” himself! The team at MoonDAO are raising funds right now to send this beautiful human into space. You can help! They’ve already raised over $150k! So join in right now and let’s do this thing! Send Frank to Space! Right now! Make a donation! UP!
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Fungus from NASA cleanrooms could survive Mars conditions
“The presence of fungal species in cleanroom environments, their potential to survive prolonged exposure to space conditions, in combination with the results of this study, underscore fungal conidia as a significant consideration for planetary protection.” [ https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/30458/fungus-nasa-cl…nditions-2](https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/30458/fungus-nasa-cl…nditions-2)
NASA cleanrooms exist to keep spacecraft free of fungus and bacteria that could unknowingly hitch a ride to another world. But what if these procedures aren’t sufficient? This is what a recent study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated if decontamination strategies outlined by NASA’s planetary protection office are sufficient in preventing fungus and bacteria on Earth from contaminating other worlds.
For the study, the researchers conducted a series of experimental simulations to ascertain the survival probabilities of several microorganisms and whether they would survive on Mars and during the journey to the Red Planet. The primary goal of this study was to address a knowledge gap with planetary protection, specifically whether current protocols are sufficient in preventing bacteria and other microorganisms from hitching a ride on spacecraft to other worlds.
In the end, the researchers found that a known fungus called Aspergillus calidoustus (A. calidoustus) was found to survive sterilization procedures, contrary to rigorous cleaning. Additionally, the researchers found that A. calidoustus would not only survive the trip to Mars, but it could also survive on the surface of Mars despite the extreme radiation and temperatures. However, the team did find that A. calidoustus met its end when exposed to a combination of radiation and the extreme cold of the Martian surface.
Mini brain-like structures grown in lab may help scientists treat, diagnose and stage Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that clusters of brain tissue derived from the cells of patients with Alzheimer’s disease may be used to evaluate how certain patients with the neurodegenerative condition may respond to drugs commonly prescribed to treat psychiatric symptoms of the disorder. The findings, based on a study of lab-grown brain tissues known as organoids, contribute to a growing body of evidence that brain organoids may also one day be used to more precisely develop and prescribe treatments for subgroups of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common form of dementia, and affects more than seven million Americans.
In addition, the researchers found that tiny particles, known as extracellular vesicles, which are secreted by organoids, may contain cellular information that could help scientists find new biomarkers to diagnose and stage Alzheimer’s disease. A report of the findings is published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
“Our study suggests that large-scale, patient-derived brain organoids and the vesicles they secrete can help us stage Alzheimer’s disease, investigate the mechanisms that drive it and assess how patient subgroups may respond to different treatments,” says study leader Vasiliki Machairaki, Ph.D., associate professor of genetic medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia
The researchers found that natural selection has played a much larger role in determining which traits survived or declined since the Ice Age, identifying 479 genetic variations that were greatly impacted — many more than the 20 previous instances of directional selection.
Analysis of 15,836 ancient West Eurasian genomes reveals hundreds of instances of directional selection, showing that sustained changes in allele frequency were widespread, rather than being rare over this period as previously assumed.