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

2026-04-21T08:51:53Z93502672cc6c51bb80ceb4666bcf275434a5550183e30dd9b2ab90ed2ca0ceb2
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What happened

Feed of Ars Technica security stories (Mar–Apr 2026) highlighting a surge in high-impact, nation-state and supply-chain activity and multiple new technical attack vectors. Key items: Russia- and Iran-linked operations disrupting critical infrastructure and compromising thousands of consumer routers; a $15M heist blamed on foreign state actors; widespread supply-chain compromises (Trivy scanner, poisoned open‑source packages); a powerful iPhone exploit (DarkSword) seen in the wild; new GPU Rowhammer variants (GDDRHammer/GeForge/GPUBreach) that can give full machine control; Windows 11 Recall DB

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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arstechnica_security
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93502672cc6c51bb80ceb4666bcf275434a5550183e30dd9b2ab90ed2ca0ceb2
Enrichment time
2026-04-21T08:51:53Z
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