Chinese state hackers target telcos with new malware toolkit

A China-linked advanced persistent threat actor tracked as UAT-9244 has been targeting telecommunication service providers in South America since 2024, compromising Windows, Linux, and network-edge ...
The Hacker News

SloppyLemming Targets Pakistan and Bangladesh Governments Using Dual Malware Chains

SloppyLemming targeted Pakistan and Bangladesh with BurrowShell, a Rust keylogger, and 112 Cloudflare Workers domains in 2025 ...
PC Gamer

'Anyone mad is a cheater:' Players are divided as Rust beefs up anti-cheat with more effective—and invasive—upgrades

Third Person Shooter Embark admits Arc Raiders’ bosses are dying too fast because 'they're not intended for the full server to go up against' and 'we gave players too effective abilities' Third Person ...
PCGamesN

After joking about buying Amazon MMO New World, Rust boss says to "keep hope" as he signs NDA with an "unnamed company"

A new statement from the head of Rust developer Facepunch Studios has once again sparked hopes that canceled Amazon MMO New World could have a route to salvation. After jokingly making an offer for ...
The Root

Maryland Hairstylist Who Dragged Teen Client By Her Weave on Camera Finally Learns Her Fate

You probably remember that viral video from last March, right? When a Maryland hairstylist filmed— and posted— herself dragging her teenage client across the floor for allegedly not paying for her new ...
IGN

Amazon MMO New World Has Just a Year to Live, Rust Dev Offers to Buy It

Amazon has announced that its MMO, New World, will be officially taken offline from all platforms on January 31, 2027. The game is now delisted, which means it is no longer available for purchase. You ...
InfoWorld

Rust slow to compile? Here’s how to speed it up

Developers choose Rust because they can use it to write software that is memory-safe, correct, and—above all—fast. But the Rust compiler isn’t always the fastest car in the garage. The larger a Rust ...
Bleeping Computer

VMware ESXi zero-days likely exploited a year before disclosure

Chinese-speaking threat actors used a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance to deliver a VMware ESXi exploit toolkit that seems to have been developed more than a year before the targeted ...
InfoWorld

AI-built Rue language pairs Rust memory safety with ease of use

A former longtime contributor to the development of Rust now is building a Rust-based language of his own, called Rue, which is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection while being ...
crypto

BNB Chain targets 20,000 TPS with 2026 roadmap as sub-second finality looms

BNB Chain’s 2026 roadmap targets 20,000 TPS, sub-second finality and lower fees with parallel execution and a Rust client to stay competitive in Layer 1. BNB (BNB) Chain has outlined a technical ...
Computerworld

Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust

A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project “to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030”, replacing it with Rust — but alas for fans of the memory-safe ...