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What kind of malware is MrBeast?

MrBeast ransomware is malware designed to encrypt files to extract money from victims. Additionally, this ransomware renames files by appending the ".MrBeastOfficial@firemail.cc-MrBeastRansom" extension and provides two ransom notes (displays a pop-up message and creates a text file named "MrBeastChallenge.txt").

An example of how MrBeast ransomware changes filenames: it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.MrBeastOfficial@firemail.cc-MrBeastRansom", "2.png" to "1.jpg.MrBeastOfficial@firemail.cc-MrBeastRansom", and so forth. It is important to clarify that MrBeast is an online alias of a popular YouTuber who has nothing to do with the ransomware.

What kind of malware is Arcus?

We have examined Arcus and found that it is ransomware with two variants, one of which is based on Phobos ransomware. It encrypts files and appends an extension to filenames (the extension depends on the ransomware variant). Also, Arcus provides a ransom note (the Phobos variant generates an "info.txt" file and displays a pop-up window; the second one drops the "Arcus-ReadMe.txt" file).

The Phobos variant renames files by appending the victim's ID, an email address, and the ".Arcus" extension to filenames. For instance, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.id[9ECFA84E-3537].[arcustm@proton.me].Arcus" and "2.png" to "2.png.id[9ECFA84E-3537].[arcustm@proton.me].Arcus". The second variant appends "[Encrypted].Arcus" to filenames (e.g., "1.jpg[Encrypted].Arcus").

What kind of malware is DARKSET?

DARKSET is a malicious program categorized as ransomware. It is designed to encrypt files and demand ransoms for their decryption.

On our testing system, DARKSET encrypted files and added a ".DARKSET" extension. For example, a file initially named "1.jpg" looked like "1.jpg.DARKSET", "2.png" as "2.png.DARKSET", etc. After this process was completed, the ransomware changed the desktop wallpaper and created a ransom-demanding message titled "ReadMe.txt".

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Italy has emerged as a major global spyware hub alongside Israel and India, with at least six major vendors operating in the country with limited oversight, The Record reported this week, citing researchers and Italian experts. Companies like RCS Labs, which has operated since 1992, sell surveillance tools to both domestic law enforcement and foreign governments including Kazakhstan, Syria, and several Asian nations. Italian authorities can rent spyware for $160 per day without large acquisition costs, leading to thousands of domestic surveillance operations in recent years. While new regulations taking effect in February 2024 will require judges to evaluate specific reasons for spyware use, critics cited in the story say the reform package won't address core issues like the lack of centralized oversight. The country's competitive marketplace and relatively lax export controls have also enabled Italian vendors to expand their overseas sales.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: There's a general consensus that we won't be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected quantum computing, which is unlikely to arrive until the end of the decade. It's still an open question, however, whether we could perform limited but useful calculations at an earlier point. IBM is one of the companies that's betting the answer is yes, and on Wednesday, it announced a series of developments aimed at making that possible. On their own, none of the changes being announced are revolutionary. But collectively, changes across the hardware and software stacks have produced much more efficient and less error-prone operations. The net result is a system that supports the most complicated calculations yet on IBM's hardware, leaving the company optimistic that its users will find some calculations where quantum hardware provides an advantage. [...] Wednesday's announcement was based on the introduction of the second version of its Heron processor, which has 133 qubits. That's still beyond the capability of simulations on classical computers, should it be able to operate with sufficiently low errors. IBM VP Jay Gambetta told Ars that Revision 2 of Heron focused on getting rid of what are called TLS (two-level system) errors. "If you see this sort of defect, which can be a dipole or just some electronic structure that is caught on the surface, that is what we believe is limiting the coherence of our devices," Gambetta said. This happens because the defects can resonate at a frequency that interacts with a nearby qubit, causing the qubit to drop out of the quantum state needed to participate in calculations (called a loss of coherence). By making small adjustments to the frequency that the qubits are operating at, it's possible to avoid these problems. This can be done when the Heron chip is being calibrated before it's opened for general use. Separately, the company has done a rewrite of the software that controls the system during operations. "After learning from the community, seeing how to run larger circuits, [we were able to] almost better define what it should be and rewrite the whole stack towards that," Gambetta said. The result is a dramatic speed-up. "Something that took 122 hours now is down to a couple of hours," he told Ars. Since people are paying for time on this hardware, that's good for customers now. However, it could also pay off in the longer run, as some errors can occur randomly, so less time spent on a calculation can mean fewer errors. Despite all those improvements, errors are still likely during any significant calculations. While it continues to work toward developing error-corrected qubits, IBM is focusing on what it calls error mitigation, which it first detailed last year. [...] The problem here is that using the function is computationally difficult, and the difficulty increases with the qubit count. So, while it's still easier to do error mitigation calculations than simulate the quantum computer's behavior on the same hardware, there's still the risk of it becoming computationally intractable. But IBM has also taken the time to optimize that, too. "They've got algorithmic improvements, and the method that uses tensor methods [now] uses the GPU," Gambetta told Ars. "So I think it's a combination of both."

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1. Quarter of diabetics globally are Indians, says Lancet study  India TV News
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3. Why Lancet study on diabetes is a red flag: A quarter of diabetics globally are Indians  The Indian Express
4. 800 million diabetics worldwide and most aren't getting treatment, finds study  The Times of India
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