The Wire
Curated cybersecurity and tech news — AI-summarized, source attributed.
Roku's bargain Howdy streaming service hits 1M subs on a diet of older catalog titles
Antenna estimates Roku's Howdy SVOD service has crossed one million subscribers six months after its August launch, with roughly 300,000 sign-ups in the first m
Simon Willison ships LLM 0.32a0 alpha
Simon Willison has tagged a new alpha release of his LLM command-line tool, version 0.32a0. The post is a release marker on his weblog pointing at the in-progre
TeamPCP hits SAP npm packages, exfiltrating dev and CI credentials via GitHub dead-drops
Four official SAP npm packages — @cap-js/sqlite, @cap-js/postgres, @cap-js/db-service, and mbt — were trojanized with a preinstall script that pulls down the Bu
Troy Hunt's tongue-in-cheek 'Robophobia Equality Policy' for AI support bots
Hunt's Weekly Update 501 centers on a satirical 'Robophobia Equality Policy' he drafted for Have I Been Pwned's AI support bot, Bruce. The policy is a parody of
Ukrainian trio arrested for hijacking 610,000 Roblox accounts in $225K scheme
Lviv police arrested three Ukrainian nationals — aged 19, 21, and 22 — for compromising more than 610,000 Roblox accounts between October 2025 and January 2026,
Vect 2.0 Ransomware Functions as a Wiper Due to Broken Crypto Design
Vect 2.0, a ransomware strain currently being tracked by researchers, fails at its core function: it cannot reliably decrypt files even when victims pay. A desi
Webinar pitches automated exposure validation as answer to AI-accelerated attacks
The Hacker News is promoting a webinar centered on automating exposure validation, framing it as a necessary response to attackers who are weaponizing AI to com
Why Zig bans LLM contributions: contributors matter more than code
The Zig project enforces one of the strictest anti-LLM policies in major open source: no AI-generated issues, pull requests, or bug tracker comments, including
WordPress redirect plugin on 70K sites carried dormant backdoor since 2021
Quick Page/Post Redirect, a WordPress utility plugin with over 70,000 installs, has been hiding a backdoor planted five years ago. Researcher Austin Ginder trac
Zed hits 1.0: Rust-built, GPU-rendered editor bets on AI-native collaboration
Zed has declared its editor stable at version 1.0 after five years of development. Built by the team behind Atom, Zed deliberately rejects the Electron/Chromium
BlueNoroff Weaponizes Fake Zoom Calls, Recruits Victims as Bait for Next Targets
North Korea-linked BlueNoroff is running a social engineering campaign that lures victims into bogus Zoom meetings, then leverages those compromised accounts to
DOJ cites Comey's '86 47' seashell Instagram post as evidence in indictment push
Former FBI director James Comey posted an Instagram photo in 2025 showing seashells arranged to spell '86 47' — restaurant slang that most commonly means to rem