Huawei zero-day attack behind last year’s crash of Luxembourg's entire telecoms network
2026-05-19T20:52:00Z•09d85468dbb29fc7c8b1a11617c172b4f58ebf463ae0b9abc6c6f29ce5a9eee4
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and policy moves reported: an unexplained Huawei zero-day is blamed for a nationwide telecom outage in Luxembourg (no public acknowledgement from Huawei); the UK regulator will require tech firms to address deepfakes and non-consensual intimate-image AI abuses; Microsoft disrupted the Fox Tempest “malware-signing-as-a-service” platform that supplied code-signing tools to cybercriminals since May 2025; Interpol-led raids resulted in more than 200 arrests and discovery of hundreds of compromised devices used in Middle East scam networks; Grafana confirmed a
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