Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. "Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and crypto-wallet theft, and adds two way C2 communication with the attacker's infrastructure," iVerify said in a new report published Thursday. The name
Violent rioters, many of whom were masked, confronted police at the edge of an anti-austerity march in Brussels. Police responded with water cannons and tear gas.
Founder of influential Rybar blog detained after warnings of attempts to destabilise Balkan country, officials say A leading pro-Kremlin Russian military blogger with reported ties to Russia’s intelligence services has been arrested in Montenegro, after warnings of attempts to destabilise the Balkan country, officials have said. Mikhail Zvinchuk, the founder of the influential Rybar war blog, was detained on Friday alongside his wife and three other Russians by police and security agents in the Adriatic resort town of Risan, on suspicion of spreading Russian influence, local media reported. Continue reading...
Regulator says poll data did not sufficiently back up claim of support for plan to stop remunerating rescue officers The head of the UK coastguard agency is facing calls to resign after she was found to have used unverified data to back up her controversial plan to strip rescue officers of their pay. Virginia McVea, the chief executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), claimed more than 90% of coastguard rescue officers supported the proposal, citing an official survey. Now, after an Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) investigation, the agency has admitted its poll did not sufficiently back up the claim. Continue reading...
Core Changes Add more metadata to agent upgrade telemetry: #99925 perf: reduce build tree view allocations: #99930 fix: classify collapsed generated paths from child routes: #99864 Upgrade React from d75b0697-20261006 to b618bbb4-20261007 : #99879 Misc Changes docs(skills): use agent-agnostic branch prefix in create-pr: #99934 [test] Regression test for XSS-safe GoogleTagManager#dataLayer : #99464 [image-optimization] Expose next/image-optimizer-transform as a public subpath: #99312 fix(next): register the chunk groups that are chunked: #99749 refactor(turbopack): chunk several chunk groups in one chunk_group call: #99686 Turbopack: canonicalize chunk group identity: #98733 Turbopack: add zstd compression flags for NEXT_TURBOPACK_TRACING: #99808 Turbopack: omit Exit+Enter trace row pairs with (almost) no gap: #99780 Turbopack: delta-encode trace allocation counters and skip unchanged ones: #99779 Turbopack: merge allocation counters into trace Enter/Exit rows: #99778 [cd] Replace versioned release branches with fixed releases/lts/* refs: #99807 test: Really use pnpm on deploy tests: #95360 test: compare cache-control directives as a set in deploy tests: #99892 Credits Huge thanks to @devjiwonchoi , @aurorascharff , @sokra , @eps1lon , and @mischnic for helping!
Ethiopia and Eritrea are trading blame for confrontations in Tigray amid international calls for restraint. Their respective allies have the potential to catapult the conflict into a regional war.
Presidents Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Emmanuel Macron are about to step down from their offices. Their meeting in France made it clear how urgently the Franco-German partnership needs new momentum.
YouTube, Twitch, Meta, and X aren't saying whether they'll allow the US government to livestream an execution on their platforms. The four companies didn't respond to The Verge's requests for comment after an unnamed Pentagon official said yesterday that the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of a mass shooting at a Texas military […]