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Law enforcement dismantled the Kratos phishing kit, arresting its developer in Indonesia and taking down 200+ servers. Suno data breach exposed 55 million users, per Have I Been Pwned. Intel’s foundry landed Fortinet as a customer for custom ASICs. Meta’s AI mistakenly deleted accounts, including a teacher with 1M followers; Meta claims fewer errors. UK’s £8.35B Skynet satellite upgrade faces red rating due to supplier and staffing problems.
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical WordPress vulnerability, with dozens of public proof-of-concept exploits. Scammers impersonate the FBI on social media to prey on crime victims, warns the IC3. An AWS customer suffered a major outage after an expired payment card, spam filter, and broken authenticator combined. In the HOLLOWGRAPH campaign, malware hides commands in Microsoft 365 calendar appointments set for 2050, using Microsoft’s cloud for data exfiltration. A database of 23 million Paidwork records, including bank details, was dumped online. Meanwhile, malicious cloud customers could intentionally overload power grids.
A new Proxmox package, pve-microvm, integrates QEMU’s microvm machine type for sub-300ms boot times using a 12MB kernel and virtio-only devices. Meanwhile, a developer uncovered two browser push notification bugs: permissions silently reset and a default 60-second time-to-live discarding pushes when the browser closed—fixed by re-granting permission and setting TTL to 86,400 seconds. In cryptography, a Lean tutorial demonstrates formal verification of the One-Time Pad. Dependable C proposes a stable C subset prioritizing decadal reliability over modern standards.
Verizon is cutting 3,000 jobs and selling 274 stores as part of a restructuring to reduce costs by $5 billion by 2026. A critical OpenSSL vulnerability, HollowByte, lets remote attackers cause denial of service with an 11-byte payload; a fix is included in v4.0.1. UFO disclosure debates intensify as Jesse Michels and David Grusch allege a secret society runs a global cover-up, with a former CIA officer warning the truth may be psychologically difficult.
The Trump administration is considering an independent AI safety regulator modeled after FINRA, reporting to the SEC. Valar Atomics is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for small nuclear reactors for data centers. AWS apologized for a billing glitch that generated trillions in estimated invoices. Apple and the DOJ are in early settlement talks over a 2024 antitrust suit. Meta is negotiating to lease AI computing power to Anthropic in a deal potentially worth $10B over two years. OpenRouter also draws multibillion-dollar takeover interest.
Two British Scattered Spider members were sentenced to 5.5 years for the 2024 Transport for London cyberattack, the UK’s largest cybercrime prosecution. A tech support scam at Qantas exposed data of 5.7 million people. An AWS CloudFront outage due to storm winds disrupted sites like the UK National Lottery. Meta will notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot, with global rollout planned.