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Crosswalks in Silicon Valley hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg sound-a-likes
By Mark Tyson published
A number of Silicon Valley crosswalks were hacked to sound like U.S. big-tech broligarchs, according to reports published by local media this weekend.

Akira ransomware can be cracked with 16 RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption
By Dallin Grimm published
Tinyhack publishes a full how-to guide on brute-forcing past the Akira ransomware's encryption attack and freeing captive files.

Apartment complexes broken into with phone in minutes
By Dallin Grimm published
A wide list of apartment complexes using IoT-connected intercoms still use the default logins from their manuals, making them easily accessible by bad actors.

FBI identifies North Korea as source of $1.5 billion ByBit hack
By Jowi Morales published
The FBI has traced the ByBit crypto exchange hack to a group of North Korean hackers.

CS2 fans targeted by Streamjackers — viewers shown fishy links, QR codes
By Mark Tyson published
Cybercriminals are targeting the CS2 community with streamjacking scams. Innocents have been lured into sharing Steam credentials, and paying into crypto-doubling scams.

Security researcher finds vulnerability in internet-connected bed
By Christopher Harper published
Web-connected smart bed provider Eight Sleep revealed to be including an SSH backdoor in its beds, as well as exposing a live AWS key.

Intel roasts AMD and Nvidia in its latest product security report, claiming AMD has vulnerabilities with no fix planned, Nvidia has only high-severity security bugs [Updated]
By Jowi Morales published
Intel says that AMD and Nvidia had more vulnerabilities versus its products.

Backdoor uncovered in China-made patient monitors
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
The CISA and FDA have released security warnings about the Contec CMS8000, which is used for patient monitoring.
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