In its recent “Global Report on Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance 2025,” the World Health Organization warns of growing resistance to common antibiotics globally.

According to the document, “one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections that caused common infections in people worldwide in 2023 was resistant to antibiotic treatment.”

Statistics reveal that between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance increased in more than 40 % of “monitored pathogen-antibiotic combinations, with an average annual increase of 5 to 15 percent.” The report was based on data reported to the organization’s Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in more than 100 countries.

For the first time, it presents “estimates of the prevalence of resistance to 22 antibiotics used to treat urinary tract and gastrointestinal infections, bloodstream infections, and those used to treat gonorrhea.”

According to this document, drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria are increasingly dangerous worldwide, with the greatest impact on nations least equipped to respond.

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The open-source Godot Engine game engine is currently being used by cybercriminals to spread the GodLoader ransomware, which steals users’ personal data and credentials.

According to cybersecurity researchers, the threat looms over more than 1.2 million online gamers through the free Godot Engine game development platform.

“This engine has an intuitive interface and a Python-like scripting language called GDScript and its user community registers more than 2,700 contributors, making it one of the most popular engines.”

The ransomware campaign has already infected 17,000 victim computers worldwide, taking advantage of the “trust that gamers place in legitimate platforms to carry out their malicious actions.”

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The findings, published in Environmental Science & Technology, indicate that current efforts to preserve and restore the health of the great reef off Australia’s east coast may require a new perspective.

Dr Douglas Tait of Southern Cross University, who is leading the study, said in a statement: “Submarine groundwater discharge exceeds inputs from rivers as a source of nutrients for the Great Barrier Reef.”

Submarine groundwater discharge is any water released into the ocean below the waterline from various sources, including underground aquifers and the seabed.

The research team collected data from marine transects, rivers and coastal boreholes in an area from south of Rockhampton to north of Cairns. Using radio isotopes allowed scientists to track how many nutrients are transported from soil and shelf sediments through invisible flows of groundwater.

Southern Cross professor Damien Maher said the team’s work showed groundwater discharge was 10 to 15 times greater than river inputs, something that had previously gone unaccounted for.

“Groundwater discharge accounted for approximately one-third of the new nitrogen and two-thirds of the phosphorus inputs, indicating that almost twice as much nitrogen enters the reef from groundwater compared to river waters,” said the Professor Maher.

Until now, most efforts to mitigate the impact of nutrients on the reef have focused on the outflow of river systems.

Lead author Dr Douglas Tait said: “Nutrients are essential for supporting the incredible biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef. However, too many nutrients can lead to harmful problems such as harmful algal blooms and marine diseases fish”, which have been increasing on the reef over the last few decades.

“Our study highlights the need for a strategic shift in management approaches aimed at safeguarding the Great Barrier Reef from the effects of excess nutrients.”

Dr Tait said that, unlike river flow, nutrients in groundwater could be stored for decades underground before being released into coastal waters, meaning research and strategies to protect the reef needed to be long-term.

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The leading company in early detection of threats, will be presenting today its ESET Security Days, the eleventh edition dedicated to Venezuela, in order to bring companies closer to the most important cybersecurity challenges and the information necessary to face them, protect them and boost their businesses.

The event will be held virtually, with live transmission, free of charge and open to the entire community and as the only requirement, those interested must pre-register on the website: https://www.esetlive.com/securitydays-venezuela.

In this edition, a series of speakers participate, whit topics related to information security. Among them, Tony Anscombe, Security Evangelist at ESET, stands out. He will talk about “Ransomware: an evolving business model”, where the interest of this type of threat in Latin America will be explored.

Miguel Ángel Mendoza, Security Researcher of the company, and Franco Fabricatore, Product Marketing Analyst, will speak on “How to evolve in cybersecurity in your company”, guiding organizations on the various security strategies and the importance of cyber intelligence and adversary simulation.

For his part, Leandro González, Product Manager of ESET Latin America, will talk about the “New normality, new paradigms: Homeworking and the cloud” and the need to establish security mechanisms in these environments, which are being adopted by companies as a result of the pandemic.

Carlos López Rodríguez, Logintel Support and Training Manager, will close with the presentation “How to design the security strategy in your company?” to highlights the importance of learning from cybercriminals and the need to create a “collaborative ecosystem” to deal with these organized groups.

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