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Dutch police and the National Cyber Security Center dismantled a botnet of over 17 million devices controlled from about 200 servers, linked to the Russia-based ASOCKS residential proxy network, highlighting cross-border enforcement against large-scale cybercrime.
US government commits $2B in CHIPS Act–funded equity investments to quantum startups, with Anderon (IBM-backed) receiving $1B from IBM and $1B from the government, triggering questions about legality and potential regulatory challenges.
OpenClaw’s CVE-2026-33579 exposes a high-severity privilege-escalation risk with 63% of 135k internet-facing instances unauthenticated, patched late, and with broad adoption (347k GitHub stars) implying significant operational risk.
Researchers demonstrate Rowhammer GPU attacks on Nvidia Ampere GPUs (RTX 3060/6000) that can achieve full host compromise by corrupting GPU page tables, with mitigations including IOMMU or ECC.
IACR canceled its leadership election after a trustee lost a decryption key and will change key-management rules and restart the election.
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components (CVE-2025-55182) can be exploited with a single HTTP request; affects multiple frameworks and is widely used, prompting urgent patching of React and dependencies.
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