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A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions, global fintech and cryptocurrency services, and military-focused communications. “Manic sits at the intersection of Android banking malware and mobile spyware, combining financial-fraud capabilities with broader surveillance and device-control features,” ThreatFabric said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. The malware, besides targeting sensitive applications and enabling extensive device takeover, introduces a novel Wi‑Fi mesh technique that makes it possible for the infected devices to relay data through nearby compromised devices…

In brief Alibaba’s fiscal first-quarter revenue rose 9% year-over-year to 268.95 billion yuan ($40 billion), narrowly beating the 268.88 billion yuan analyst estimate, while net income fell 75% to RMB 10.44billion ($1.6 billion). Alibaba Cloud’s external revenue growth accelerated to 45%, and AI-related product revenue logged its 12th straight quarter of triple-digit growth, reaching 12.38 billion yuan ($1.82 billion). Capital expenditure jumped 75% to 67.7 billion yuan ($10 billion), pushing free cash flow to a $6.6 billion outflow; U.S.-listed shares fell as much as 5% before paring the drop to roughly 3.5%. Chinese tech titan Alibaba reported fiscal first-quarter revenue…

A radical overhaul of Victoria’s highest court, proposed by the Liberal party to increase sentences, has been criticised by legal and human rights groups who warn it would politicise the judiciary.The opposition leader, Jess Wilson, on Sunday announced that if elected in November the Coalition would split the court of appeal in two, creating a dedicated court of criminal appeal alongside a separate court of civil appeal.It would appoint additional judges with expertise in criminal law to the new court of criminal appeal.The overhaul would be introduced alongside tougher bail and sentencing laws, which the Coalition has committed to enacting…

The Swift space observatory has been in operation since 2004. It specializes in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic electromagnetic explosions known in the universe. Its original mission was supposed to last just two years. More than two decades later, it continues to explore some of the most violent phenomena in the cosmos. Now it is nearing the end of its life.Swift doesn’t have a propulsion system capable of significantly raising its orbit. Although it is hundreds of kilometers above the Earth’s surface, there are still atmospheric particles at that altitude that exert a small but constant drag on the…

In brief A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found 63% of respondents consider it inappropriate for Trump and his family to have profited from crypto, while 69% believe his private business interests are influencing his presidential decisions. Roughly half of Trump’s own Republicans said they think he lets business interests sway his decisions, though about seven in 10 Republicans still called the crypto dealings appropriate. The results add data to a running controversy: Trump earned over $1.4 billion from ventures like World Liberty Financial and his meme coin—as the White House denies any conflicts and lawmakers wrangle over Clarity Act provisions restricting…

Claim: A photograph authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump in Moscow in 1987, when he was 41, at the invitation of Yuri Dubinin, the Soviet ambassador to the U.S. Rating: Context While the photo is authentic and shows Trump in Moscow, it is from a visit he took to the Russian capital in 1996, when he was 50. Dubinin was not the nation’s ambassador to the U.S. at that time. Over the years, people have shared an image allegedly showing a 41-year-old Donald Trump during his first visit to Moscow in July 1987. Users’ posts claimed Yuri Dubinin, the Soviet…

One Nation MP David Farley has conceded the minor party’s net migration target is “not too different” to Labor’s, echoing an earlier claim over which he was counselled by his party leader, Pauline Hanson.Appearing on the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday morning, Farley argued skilled workers and backpackers were critical to keeping Australia fed, and argued they should be considered as a separate category to migration “in its true form”.The minor rightwing party, led by Hanson, has struggled to define its migration policy, with inconsistent messaging over whether its target figure represents net overseas migration (Nom) or permanent migration.The member…

As the controversial vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety continues to expand, WIRED got the code for the company’s new AI policing tool and reconstructed the software to show that its capabilities go far beyond reading license plates and tracking vehicles. We also published the story this week of a Rhode Island police officer who was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years after he publicly questioned his department’s use of Flock cameras.Following incidents of high-profile rogue activity by some of its AI agents, OpenAI said this week that it is halting model training runs and overhauling…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that exploit how major content delivery networks (CDNs) convert client-facing HTTP/3 traffic into HTTP/1.1 requests to the websites they front, amplifying a low-bandwidth request stream by up to 350x against the origin server. The attacks, collectively named “CDN Tsunami,” were evaluated against Alibaba, Baidu, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Tencent. All six were found susceptible to the bandwidth variant and five to the connection variant, with Cloudflare unaffected by the latter because it buffers the complete request before opening a connection to the origin. The attack requires a website hosted on one…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are up another 5-10% with BTC leading; BTC at $77.4k The BTC ETFs saw $606M in inflows and ETH had $219M, new local highs Over $1.2B in crypto shorts liquidated in past 24 hours, nearly $5B in 2 days CFTC Chair says he’ll write the crypto rules himself if Congress won’t Pump Fun posts 2 biggest back-to-back revenue days since January, PUMP +25% 🏛️ CFTC Chair Says He’ll Write Crypto Rules…