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A Mirai botnet variant has been found exploiting a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Four-Faith industrial routers since early November 2024 with the goal of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

The botnet maintains approximately 15,000 daily active IP addresses, with the infections primarily scattered across China, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and the United States.

Exploiting an arsenal of over 20 known security vulnerabilities and weak Telnet credentials for initial access, the malware is known to have been active since February 2024. The botnet has been dubbed “gayfemboy” in reference to the offensive term present in the source code.

NonEuclid RAT: C# malware offering remote access, antivirus bypass, and ransomware, active since November 2024.

Cybersecurity researchers have found that bad actors are continuing to have success by spoofing sender email addresses as part of various malspam campaigns.

Faking the sender address of an email is widely seen as an attempt to make the digital missive more legitimate and get past security mechanisms that could otherwise flag it as malicious.

While there are safeguards such as DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) that can be used to prevent spammers from spoofing well-known domains, such measures have increasingly led them to leverage old, neglected domains in their operations.

The first liftoff of New Glenn is set for Jan. 10 at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT).

The intricate relationship between quantum mechanics and classical physics has long puzzled scientists. Quantum mechanics operates in a bizarre world where particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously, a concept known as superposition. However, this principle appears to break down in the macroscopic realm.

Planets, stars, and even the universe itself don’t exhibit such superpositions, creating a significant challenge in understanding how the universe transitions from quantum to classical behavior.

At the heart of this enigma is the question: how does the universe, if fundamentally quantum, adhere to classical laws like general relativity? This puzzle has led to groundbreaking work by researchers such as Matteo Carlesso and his colleagues at the University of Trieste.

Many experts are expecting big advance in quantum computing in 2025, but what is a quantum chip and how does it work?

A recent study highlights that significant health benefits and molecular adaptations from fasting are detectable after three days.

Recent findings show that prolonged fasting triggers significant and systematic changes across multiple organs in the body. These results highlight potential health benefits that extend beyond weight loss, but they also reveal that these impactful changes only begin to occur after three full days without food.

Health Benefits of Fasting Unveiled.

Beyond fermions and bosons: unveiling new particle behaviors in mechanics.

In the world, particles traditionally fall into two categories: fermions (like electrons) and bosons (like photons), each obeying distinct exchange rules. These “exchange statistics” shape the behaviors of particles, from the structure of atoms to the glow of lasers. In two dimensions, a peculiar third type, called anyons, has been theorized and observed, adding a twist to this framework. But could there be even more possibilities?

This study ventures into uncharted territory by revisiting “parastatistics,” an idea from theory that goes beyond fermions and bosons. Previously dismissed as merely theoretical and equivalent to the known particle types, parastatistics now emerges in a new light. The researchers reveal that particles obeying non-trivial parastatistics can exist in real physical systems and behave in fundamentally different ways. These “paraparticles” follow unique rules of exclusion, resulting in strange and exotic thermodynamic behaviors unlike any seen in fermions or bosons.

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Carl Sagan famously said, “We are made of star-stuff,” but even he didn’t realize just how far that star stuff traveled before it got to us.

New Hubble data has shown at least some of the carbon that now makes up our bodies may once have drifted hundreds of thousands of light-years out of the galaxy and back.

Elements heavier than helium are forged in the hearts of stars, eventually released into the cosmos when those stars explode as supernovae. These ingredients are then fed into the next generation of stars and planets.