The Trump administration has been defying court orders to unfreeze federal funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which has led to reduced health research capacity. Despite legal advice to resume business, NIH officials have been pressured by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ignore the orders and maintain the pause on grant disbursals. This has left the NIH in limbo, issuing only a fraction of its usual awards and threatening US medical research.

Malware-Infested Android Devices Fuel Global Botnet Fraud
More than a million Chinese-made off-brand Android devices have been sold carrying a Trojan known as Badbox, according to cybersecurity firm Human Security. The malware