General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Why AI-based voice cloning is the next frontier in social-engineering attacks.
Publish Date: 8/7/2025
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Stopping people from falling for phishing attacks isn't working. So what are organizations to do?
Publish Date: 8/5/2025
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The allegations are the latest to accuse Perplexity of improper web crawling.
Publish Date: 8/4/2025
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A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.
Publish Date: 8/1/2025
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End goal is the installation of a malicious TLS root certificate for use in intel gathering.
Publish Date: 7/31/2025
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Sophisticated group also used novel means to disguise their custom malware.
Publish Date: 7/30/2025
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AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement.
Publish Date: 7/30/2025
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Beware of coding agents that can access your command window.
Publish Date: 7/30/2025
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Proposed data center would demand 5x Wyoming's current power use at full deployment.
Publish Date: 7/29/2025
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"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.
Publish Date: 7/28/2025
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State-owned Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights, stranding travelers throughout Russia.
Publish Date: 7/28/2025
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As BlackSuit's dark web site goes dark, Chaos is already around to pick up the slack.
Publish Date: 7/26/2025
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Sources say new model combines o3 reasoning with general GPT capabilities.
Publish Date: 7/25/2025
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Attacks affected packages, including one with ~2.8 million weekly downloads.
Publish Date: 7/25/2025
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"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.
Publish Date: 7/24/2025
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Black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing’s high-tech ambitions.
Publish Date: 7/24/2025
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Customers will get patches at unspecified "later date," Broadcom says.
Publish Date: 7/24/2025
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Trump's "AI Action Plan" reverses regulations, sparks critical pushback.
Publish Date: 7/24/2025
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"Easy to throw around numbers, but this is a gigantic infrastructure project."
Publish Date: 7/23/2025
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Easy to exploit. Unauthenticated access. Massive reach. ToolShell has it all.
Publish Date: 7/23/2025
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