Biz & IT – Ars Technica

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.

The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.

The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.

HiveLegacy is a “powerful primitive” that’s likely capable of other nefarious actions.

Old and forgotten “shims” Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.

With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.

“Context bombing” tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

The feud between NightmareEclipse and Microsoft shows no signs of resolving soon.

Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits.

Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.

But the devices could “easily be reflashed.”

Miners backed by Trump admin sell to Japan, South Korea despite push to develop domestic supply chain.

“HalluSquatting” weaponizes LLMs’ inability to say “I don’t know.”

The discovery underscores the increased effort being poured into Mac infostealers.

T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March.

Notion is “going all in on using agents to run your inbox.”

“Operation Endgame” simultaneously disrupts two widely used crime tools.