General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines

The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Publish Date: 7/15/2026
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Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.
Publish Date: 7/15/2026
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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
Publish Date: 7/14/2026
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The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router

With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.
Publish Date: 7/13/2026
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Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
Publish Date: 7/13/2026
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Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

The feud between NightmareEclipse and Microsoft shows no signs of resolving soon.
Publish Date: 7/9/2026
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Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA

Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits.
Publish Date: 7/9/2026
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Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes

Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
Publish Date: 7/8/2026
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Aussie gov't tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers

But the devices could "easily be reflashed."
Publish Date: 7/8/2026
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US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge

Miners backed by Trump admin sell to Japan, South Korea despite push to develop domestic supply chain.
Publish Date: 7/8/2026
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Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets

"HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."
Publish Date: 7/8/2026
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Newly discovered PamStealer isn't your typical macOS malware

The discovery underscores the increased effort being poured into Mac infostealers.
Publish Date: 7/2/2026
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T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.
Publish Date: 7/1/2026
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New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.
Publish Date: 6/30/2026
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US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree

Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March.
Publish Date: 6/29/2026
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Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

Notion is "going all in on using agents to run your inbox."
Publish Date: 6/25/2026
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One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line"

"Operation Endgame" simultaneously disrupts two widely used crime tools.
Publish Date: 6/24/2026
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