General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

Creators say app is intended for parental monitoring. So why the emphasis on stealth?
Publish Date: 7/3/2025
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AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

Move is aimed at curbing a form of abuse that costs subscribers dearly.
Publish Date: 7/2/2025
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Drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

Official was connected to FBI probe of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Publish Date: 6/30/2025
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Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets

AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, and Qualcomm.
Publish Date: 6/26/2025
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Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

AI chatbot codes browser-based apps from plain English with classic web vibes.
Publish Date: 6/26/2025
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VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom

"Our management thought it was a bluff..."
Publish Date: 6/26/2025
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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
Publish Date: 6/25/2025
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Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll.
Publish Date: 6/25/2025
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The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

As thousands of applications flood job posts, 'hiring slop' is kicking off an AI arms race.
Publish Date: 6/24/2025
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Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group

Maximum-security Cisco vulnerability was patched Oct. 2023 and exploited Feb. 2025.
Publish Date: 6/23/2025
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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

Attacker rained down the equivalent of 9,300 full-length HD movies in just 45 seconds.
Publish Date: 6/20/2025
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Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system

The hacker group has destroyed more than $90 million held at an Iranian crypto exchange.
Publish Date: 6/19/2025
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Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.

Microsoft, Apple, Bank of America, and many more sites all targeted.
Publish Date: 6/18/2025
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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.
Publish Date: 6/18/2025
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Cybersecurity takes a big hit in new Trump executive order

Provisions on secure software, quantum–resistant crypto, and more are scrapped.
Publish Date: 6/17/2025
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OpenAI weighs “nuclear option” of antitrust complaint against Microsoft

WSJ report says OpenAI mulling federal complaint as Microsoft stalls restructuring plan.
Publish Date: 6/17/2025
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Vandals cut fiber-optic lines, causing outage for Spectrum Internet subscribers

The soaring price of copper makes networks tempting targets for thieves.
Publish Date: 6/16/2025
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Coming to Apple OSes: A seamless, secure way to import and export passkeys

Apple OSes will soon transfer passkeys seamlessly and securely across platforms.
Publish Date: 6/12/2025
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Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit

Multiple-studio complaint cites AI image outputs as evidence of "bottomless pit of plagiarism."
Publish Date: 6/11/2025
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With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does

New studies reveal pattern-matching reality behind the AI industry's reasoning claims.
Publish Date: 6/11/2025
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