General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

“Negative” views of Broadcom driving thousands of VMware migrations, rival says

Western Union exec says there were "challenges" working with Broadcom.
Publish Date: 4/9/2026
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Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites

As the US and Israel's war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.
Publish Date: 4/8/2026
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Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia's military

End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
Publish Date: 4/8/2026
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OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.
Publish Date: 4/3/2026
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New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.
Publish Date: 4/2/2026
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Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption

No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.
Publish Date: 3/31/2026
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Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.
Publish Date: 3/25/2026
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Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines

Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections.
Publish Date: 3/24/2026
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Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.
Publish Date: 3/20/2026
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Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program

Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities."
Publish Date: 3/19/2026
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Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway

One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.
Publish Date: 3/18/2026
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Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers

Internet-exposed devices that give BIOS-level access? What could possibly go wrong?
Publish Date: 3/17/2026
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Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.
Publish Date: 3/13/2026
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The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker's Windows network

Company says it doesn't know how long it will take to restore its Microsoft environment.
Publish Date: 3/12/2026
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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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