Google dismantles massive proxy network that turned 9 million Android phones into data relays

The discovery triggered what Google is calling the largest residential proxy network takedown in history. Armed with a federal court order, the company pulled the plug ...
Microsoft

Analysis of active exploitation of SolarWinds Web Help Desk

We are seeing exploitation of SolarWinds Web Help Desk via CVE‑2025‑40551 and CVE‑2025‑40536 that can lead to domain ...

9 million Android phones were secretly hijacked by proxy network

Google claims to have shut down a huge criminal network that used users' phones and PCs to distribute illegal data undetected.
Nature

Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects

We describe a model of visual processing in which feedback connections from a higher- to a lower-order visual cortical area carry predictions of lower-level neural activities, whereas the feedforward ...