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Wizards of the Coast is launching Magic: The Gathering‘s new set centered around Marvel‘s Spider-Man later this month, and Variety has an exclusive first look at two of the cards from the new web-slinger collection. Per the Hasbro-owned Wizards of the Coast, this full set release “marks the beginning of a new chapter” in Magic’s long-standing partnership with Marvel, which …

Researchers in Taiwan have observed sheet web spiders (Psechrus clavis) capturing fireflies and leaving them glowing in their webs for up to an hour. This unusual tactic turns the fireflies’ mating signals into a deadly lure, with other insects attracted to the light before becoming trapped themselves. Keen to find out more about the hunting strategy, scientists from Tunghai University devised a …

A peer-reviewed study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has documented the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, Australia. Measuring 23.31 millimeters in body length—about five times larger than modern trapdoor spiders—this extinct species, named Megamonodontium mccluskyi, dates back to the Miocene epoch and offers a rare window …

The FBI and a host of international cyber and law enforcement agencies on Tuesday warned that Scattered Spider extortionists have changed their tactics and are now breaking into victims’ networks using savvier social engineering techniques, searching for organizations’ Snowflake database credentials, and deploying a handful of new ransomware variants, most recently DragonForce.   As we’ve seen in the gang’s most recent …

Scattered Spider Hijacks VMware ESXi to Deploy Ransomware on Critical U.S. Infrastructure  The Hacker News Scattered Spider is running a VMware ESXi hacking spree  BleepingComputer UNC3944 Attacking VMware vSphere and Enabling SSH on ESXi Hosts to Reset ‘root’ Passwords  CyberSecurityNews Cybercrime trendsetter Scattered Spider rarely needs to hack  Techzine Global Scattered Spider Targeting VMware vSphere Environments  SecurityWeek Source link

Scattered Spider hackers have been aggressively targeting virtualized environments by attacking VMware ESXi hypervisors at U.S. companies in the retail, airline, transportation, and insurance sectors. According to the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GITG), the attackers keep employing their usual tactics that do not include vulnerability exploits but rely on perfectly executed social engineering “to bypass even mature security programs.” A Scattered …

Spider Bite Leaves Iowa Teen Fighting For His Life: ‘The World You Knew a Moment Ago Disappears’ (Exclusive)  AOL.com Source link

An unusual fossil brain suggests that the ancestors of spiders and other arachnids may have once scuttled around the sea, rather than on land as was long thought, a new study finds. The fossil shows that certain features of the brain of a now-extinct animal known as Mollisonia symmetrica are arranged backward compared with those of most modern arthropods, a …

A dwarf sand adder snake – credit Arno Moller, Unsplash Hundreds of potential antibiotics have been discovered in snake and spider venom thanks to AI. A screening of global venom libraries, powered by artificial intelligence uncovered dozens of “promising” new drug candidates. AI has already been used to complete screenings of plant compounds and existing drugs in search of potential …