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Sharing Is Scaring: Linking Cloud File-Sharing to Programming Language Semantics

Sharing Is Scaring: Linking Cloud File-Sharing to Programming Language Semantics Skyler Austen, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler SPLASH Onward!, 2025 Abstract Users often struggle with cloud file-sharing applications. Problems appear to arise not only from interface flaws, but also from misunderstanding the underlying semantics of operations like linking, attaching, downloading, and editing. We argue that these difficulties echo long-standing challenges in understanding concepts in progra

UK ties GRU to stealthy Microsoft 365 credential-stealing malware

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has formally attributed ‘Authentic Antics’ espionage malware attacks to APT28 (Fancy Bear), a threat actor already linked to Russia’s military intelligence service (GRU). The NCSC revealed in a detailed technical analysis of the Authentic Antics malware dated May 6th that it is stealing credentials and OAuth 2.0 tokens that allow access to a target's email account. The malware was observed in use in 2023 and runs inside the Outlook process and produ