US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states"

2026-04-18T20:51:49Z30965bb0c562101c508799afbde62cd8f142a2d57a7206eedc2fa925ffa735a6
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What happened

Ars Technica security roundup (Apr 2026) covering multiple high-impact incidents and research: state-linked offensive operations (Russia- and Iran-linked hacks disrupting US critical infrastructure and a $15M heist blamed on "unfriendly states"); mass compromise of end-of-life consumer routers by Russia's military; a supply-chain compromise of the widely used Trivy scanner; a new in-the-wild iPhone exploit (DarkSword) affecting large numbers of devices; novel GPU Rowhammer attacks (GDDRHammer, GeForge, GPUBreach) enabling full system compromise; OpenClaw agent enabling unauthenticated admin-j0

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