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Germany Doxes 'UNKN,' Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs ...
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Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel's 37-Year-Old i486 Processor
"It's finally time," writes Phoronix — since "no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support."
"A patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately remo...
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Russia's VPN Crackdown Caused Bank Outages, Telegram Founder Says
Russia's "great crackdown" on VPNs — and a clampdown on Telegram's messaging platform — had an unintended side effect, reports Bloomberg. It "triggered the widespread banking outage seen across the country this week, Telegram's billionaire founder Pavel Durov said."
"Telegram was banned...
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Internet Bug Bounty Pauses Payouts, Citing 'Expanding Discovery' From AI-Assisted Research
The Internet Bug Bounty program "has been paused for new submissions," they announced last week.
Running since 2012, the program is funded by "a number of leading software companies," reports InfoWorld, "and has awarded more than $1.5m to researchers who have reported bugs "
Up to now, 80% of its...
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Claude Code Leak Reveals a 'Stealth' Mode for GenAI Code Contributions - and a 'Frustration Words' Regex
That leak of Claude Code's source code "revealed "all kinds of juicy details," writes PC World.
The more than 500,000 lines of code included:
- An 'undercover mode' for Claude that allows it to make 'stealth' contributions to public code bases
- An 'always-on' agent for Claude Code
- A Tamagotchi-...
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