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The FDA has approved bepirovirsen, marketed as Hibsago, as a functional cure for chronic Hepatitis B — a disease that affects roughly three hundred million people worldwide. This is a significant milestone from GSK, offering patients the possibility of sustained viral suppression without lifelong daily treatment, a goal researchers have chased for decades.
Shifting to a threat that lives in your inbox and your personal life, a new report from the SF Standard details how corporate spies are increasingly using dating apps and romantic relationships to extract sensitive information from tech and defense employees. The tactic is low-tech, deeply human, and apparently quite effective — a reminder that the most dangerous vulnerabilities are often social, not digital.
And on a story with broad implications for anyone running web infrastructure, hackers began exploiting critical PHP vulnerabilities four days before patches were even available. Amazon Web Services logged the initial attempts, and the bugs are now being broadly exploited across the internet. If your stack runs PHP, patching is no longer optional — it is urgent.
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