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Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business

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-Klue breach impacts security firms
-Hacker breaches Brazil's national alert system
-North Korean hackers are behind the Mastra supply chain attack
-New unfixable exploit in Apple's A12/A13 chips
-Gizmodo hosts ClickFix
-Okendo Reviews supply chain incident
-MEV bot hacked for $7.5m
-PyPI traffic exploded this year
-Android dev verification scheduled for next year
-Mastodon now supports newsletters
-Linux removes strncpy

Newsletter: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-klue-breach-impacts-security-firms/
Podcast: https://risky.biz/RBNEWS580/

-Kansas City to deploy facial recognition on buses
-Anthropic introduces age verification
-GitHub to limit pull requests
-Estonia to issue IDs to AI bots
-Three phishers arrested in the Netherlands
-SMS blaster ringleader sentenced to prison
-Texas GOP hacker pleads guilty
-Police hackathon uncovers CSAM accounts
-GitHub removes 10k malicious repos
-Slack link previews as C2
-FortiBleed also targeted MSSQL and Sophos
Homebrew is a masterpiece of software engineering. It nicely isolates packages in user-space, entirely skips the `sudo` bs of other package managers, and keeps the core OS clean. Dev tooling really doesn't get much better than this.
Energy Security, Not Climate Goals, Is Now Driving the Clean Power Boom
L: https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Energy-Security-Not-Climate-Goals-Is-Now-Driving-the-Clean-Power-Boom.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622697
posted on 2026.06.21 at 17:19:21 (c=0, p=3)
Energy Security, Not Climate Goals, Is Now Driving the Clean Power Boom

Geopolitical turmoil in the Strait of Hormuz is driving a historic surge in clean energy, as solar and storage become tools for energy security.

OilPrice.com
-New Bluekit PhaaS
-APT campaign targets Thailand's health sector
-New Squidbleed vulnerability
-New AutoJack technique
-GNU Savannah security update
-Security Fest 2026 videos
-Cisco buys WideField Security
-Kansas City to deploy facial recognition on buses
-Anthropic introduces age verification
-GitHub to limit pull requests
-Estonia to issue IDs to AI bots
-Three phishers arrested in the Netherlands
-SMS blaster ringleader sentenced to prison
-Texas GOP hacker pleads guilty
-Police hackathon uncovers CSAM accounts
-GitHub removes 10k malicious repos
-Slack link previews as C2
-FortiBleed also targeted MSSQL and Sophos

-Klue breach impacts security firms
-Hacker breaches Brazil's national alert system
-North Korean hackers are behind the Mastra supply chain attack
-New unfixable exploit in Apple's A12/A13 chips
-Gizmodo hosts ClickFix
-Okendo Reviews supply chain incident
-MEV bot hacked for $7.5m
-PyPI traffic exploded this year
-Android dev verification scheduled for next year
-Mastodon now supports newsletters
-Linux removes strncpy

Newsletter: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-klue-breach-impacts-security-firms/
Podcast: https://risky.biz/RBNEWS580/

Another supply chain attack... this one at Okendo Reviews, a product review widget used on more than 18k online stores

A threat actor known as SmartApeSG added malicious JS code to prompt users with a ClickFix window

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/smartapesg-launches-okendo-reviews-supply-chain-attack

SmartApeSG Supply Chain Attack Targets Okendo | ThreatLabz

ThreatLabz identified a SmartApeSG-linked supply chain attack that targeted the Okendo Reviews widget impacting thousands of e-commerce sites.

The safest things in DC right now are the Epstein files and the algae in the reflecting pool

Check whether a site supports post quantum crypto* https://quantumhello.xyz

* Well hybrid PQ key exchange in the form of TLS 1.3 with X25519MLKEM768