General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
Publish Date: 7/31/2026
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Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imaging.
Publish Date: 7/30/2026
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HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.
Publish Date: 7/29/2026
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10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
Publish Date: 7/28/2026
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Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
Publish Date: 7/27/2026
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"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.
Publish Date: 7/21/2026
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Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Publish Date: 7/15/2026
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HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.
Publish Date: 7/15/2026
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Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
Publish Date: 7/14/2026
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With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.
Publish Date: 7/13/2026
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"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
Publish Date: 7/13/2026
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The feud between NightmareEclipse and Microsoft shows no signs of resolving soon.
Publish Date: 7/9/2026
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Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits.
Publish Date: 7/9/2026
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Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
Publish Date: 7/8/2026
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But the devices could "easily be reflashed."
Publish Date: 7/8/2026
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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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"HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."
Publish Date: 7/8/2026
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