US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by “unfriendly states”
Grinex says needed hacking resources “available exclusively to … unfriendly states.”
Dan Goodin
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Biz & IT // Informed technology
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
Here’s which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.
Dan Goodin
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“Negative” views of Broadcom driving thousands of VMware migrations, rival says
Western Union exec says there were “challenges” working with Broadcom.
Scharon Harding
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Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites
As the US and Israel’s war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.
Dan Goodin
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Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia’s military
End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
Dan Goodin
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OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security
The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.
Dan Goodin
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New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.
Dan Goodin
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Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption
No, the sky isn’t falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won’t be as expensive as thought.
Dan Goodin
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Most Read
Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.
Dan Goodin
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Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
Development houses: It’s time to check your networks for infections.
Dan Goodin
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Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack
Admins: Sorry to say, but it’s likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.
Dan Goodin
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Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program
Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market “realities.”
Scharon Harding
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Federal cyber experts called Microsoft’s cloud a “pile of shit,” approved it anyway
One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.
ProPublica
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Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers
Internet-exposed devices that give BIOS-level access? What could possibly go wrong?
Dan Goodin
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Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
Unicode that’s invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.
Dan Goodin
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The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker’s Windows network
Company says it doesn’t know how long it will take to restore its Microsoft environment.
Dan Goodin
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14,000 routers are infected by malware that’s highly resistant to takedowns
Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.
Dan Goodin
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Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances
The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.
Dan Goodin
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Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
Problems viewing products and checking out.
Scharon Harding
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Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation
With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.
John Timmer
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Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
Scharon Harding
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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
Dan Goodin
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Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space
Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
Dan Goodin
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New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.
Dan Goodin
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Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true
Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.
Dan Goodin
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Most VMware users still “actively reducing their VMware footprint,” survey finds
Broadcom’s “strategy was never to keep every customer,” CloudBolt report says.
Scharon Harding
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Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
This story has been retracted
Ars Staff
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OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
OpenAI’s new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.
Benj Edwards
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Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says
Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.
Benj Edwards
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Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist
ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma “at scale.”
Dan Goodin
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OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of “Facebook” path
Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.
Benj Edwards
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Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.
Benj Edwards
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Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets
Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.
Dan Goodin
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AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
Benj Edwards
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OpenAI is hoppin’ mad about Anthropic’s new Super Bowl TV ads
Sam Altman calls AI competitor “dishonest” and “authoritarian” in lengthy post on X.
Benj Edwards
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Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race
Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.
WIRED
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