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A critical vulnerability in Zoom has put millions of users on alert. Researchers used artificial intelligence to build a working exploit in a single day — one that could allow a bad actor inside a meeting to silently take over another participant's device, no clicks required. The speed of that discovery says as much about AI's power as it does about the fragility of software we rely on daily.
From one security threat to another with far more sophisticated origins — North Korea's Lazarus Group has escalated its Operation Dream Job campaign, this time with a previously unknown backdoor and a zero-day exploit. The scheme used fake job listings, trojanized documents, and spoofed websites to target defense and aerospace professionals. Notably, even Google was reportedly fooled at some stage, a reminder that social engineering remains devastatingly effective regardless of how technically hardened an organization is.
On the financial side, Goldman Sachs is making a serious move into crypto infrastructure, acquiring NEOS in a two point two five billion dollar deal that pushes its total ETF assets to one hundred thirty billion dollars. The play puts Goldman in direct competition with BlackRock, signaling that institutional appetite for bitcoin-linked financial products is no longer tentative — it's strategic.
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