Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
2026-03-25T20:51:52Z•6bc2798265c90993f17f46bd1d215b12752055fa5810f491e2219f19b742e8f3
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What happened
A March 2026 roundup of major security developments: Google moved its estimated ‘Q‑Day’ crypto migration up to 2029, urging faster industry transition away from RSA/EC; multiple high‑impact supply‑chain attacks were disclosed (including a compromised Trivy scanner and invisible‑Unicode source poisoning hitting GitHub and other repos); a self‑propagating malware campaign that implanted destructive wipers targeted Iran; a widely usable iPhone exploit tool (“DarkSword”) observed in the wild; thousands of routers (mostly Asus) remain infected and resilient to takedowns; a destructive wiper knocked
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