General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns

Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.
Publish Date: 3/11/2026
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Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances

The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.
Publish Date: 3/6/2026
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Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

Problems viewing products and checking out.
Publish Date: 3/5/2026
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Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation

With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.
Publish Date: 3/5/2026
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Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
Publish Date: 3/3/2026
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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
Publish Date: 3/3/2026
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Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space

Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
Publish Date: 2/28/2026
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New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.
Publish Date: 2/26/2026
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Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true

Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.
Publish Date: 2/17/2026
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Most VMware users still "actively reducing their VMware footprint," survey finds

Broadcom's "strategy was never to keep every customer," CloudBolt report says.
Publish Date: 2/17/2026
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OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.
Publish Date: 2/12/2026
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Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.
Publish Date: 2/12/2026
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Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist

ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."
Publish Date: 2/11/2026
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OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path

Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.
Publish Date: 2/11/2026
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Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.
Publish Date: 2/6/2026
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Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.
Publish Date: 2/6/2026
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AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
Publish Date: 2/5/2026
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OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads

Sam Altman calls AI competitor "dishonest" and "authoritarian" in lengthy post on X.
Publish Date: 2/5/2026
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Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race

Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.
Publish Date: 2/5/2026
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