General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

Most companies downsizing office space say it's because of hybrid work.
Publish Date: 8/8/2025
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Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files

Running JavaScript from inside an image? What could possibly go wrong?
Publish Date: 8/8/2025
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Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

Disclosure comes two months after Google warned the world of ongoing spree.
Publish Date: 8/7/2025
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OpenAI launches GPT-5 free to all ChatGPT users

New model claims fewer confabulations, better coding, and "safe completions" approach.
Publish Date: 8/7/2025
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Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

Why AI-based voice cloning is the next frontier in social-engineering attacks.
Publish Date: 8/7/2025
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Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

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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AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

The allegations are the latest to accuse Perplexity of improper web crawling.
Publish Date: 8/4/2025
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At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

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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Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies

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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In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network

Sophisticated group also used novel means to disguise their custom malware.
Publish Date: 7/30/2025
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So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work

AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement.
Publish Date: 7/30/2025
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Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

Beware of coding agents that can access your command window.
Publish Date: 7/30/2025
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AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents

Proposed data center would demand 5x Wyoming's current power use at full deployment.
Publish Date: 7/29/2025
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test

"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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Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel

State-owned Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights, stranding travelers throughout Russia.
Publish Date: 7/28/2025
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After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges

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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OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August

Sources say new model combines o3 reasoning with general GPT capabilities.
Publish Date: 7/25/2025
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Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand

Attacks affected packages, including one with ~2.8 million weekly downloads.
Publish Date: 7/25/2025
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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.
Publish Date: 7/24/2025
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Nvidia AI chips worth $1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls

Black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing’s high-tech ambitions.
Publish Date: 7/24/2025
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