Iranian hackers hit 30 US water treatment plants in a coordinated attack

Employees are fighting back against RTO mandates, and Amazon spent $1.8 million on Claude code tasks Created for znamenski.techradar@blogger.com | Web Version   07 August 2026 CONNECT WITH TECHRADAR PRO  CONNECT WITH TECHRADAR PRO    Your round up of the biggest B2B tech news of the week SIGN UP ⋅   SHARE Security Over 30 Minnesota water utilities hit in coordinated cyberattack by Iranian attackers More than 30 Minnesota water utilities were hit in a coordinated attack on their control systems, with one town's treatment plant knocked offline. A leaked memo points to Iran, though no agency has formally accused it. Read More Business Employees really aren't happy with being forced back to the office and many are starting to fight back Study claims the majority of workers now see RTO as a stealthy way to reduce headcount - and so the sabotage begins. Read More AI Amazon admits it accidentally shelled out $1.8 million for Claude to finish its menial coding tasks Amazon's Claude Sonnet deployment cost $1.8 million, 860% over budget, exposing broader AI spending issues despite the company's continued experimentation defense. Read More Software Microsoft turns to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice over second-hand software licenses with billions on the line Microsoft argued Office clip art made it unresellable. Two UK courts disagreed, and now it wants the Supreme Court to look at it in an appeal that could have far-reaching consequences for the software giant. Read More Hardware Pentagon is looking for drone bombers, but don't expect a B52 replacement, as they'd carry only an 18 lb payload Reusable bomber drones carrying 18-pound payloads will compete in October's Gauntlet trial for $32 million in prototype contracts. Read More Cloud Cloudflare reveals some of the wildest reasons behind Internet downtime across the world A routine key update took every .de website offline worldwide, and the failure, interestingly, made global DNS queries go up, not down. Read More Politics A torrent of states are repealing data center tax exemptions but it could increase costs by upwards of 7% Multiple states are repealing or modifying sales tax exemptions, and it could cause the cost of data centers to skyrocket. Read More Follow TechRadar Pro Contact Us: Feedback | Advertise Sign Up | Update Profile | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy | Cookies Policy | Terms and Conditions When you purchase through links in our content, we may earn an affiliate commission.   © Future Publishing Limited. Reg No. 2008885 England. Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA.

Iranian hackers hit 30 US water utility sites in coordinated attack

Hugging Face uses Chinese AI model after OpenAI attack, and DNA samples can be switched undetectably Created for znamenski.techradar@blogger.com | Web Version   August 5, 2026 CONNECT WITH TECHRADAR PRO  CONNECT WITH TECHRADAR PRO    Your round-up of the top security news of the week SIGN UP ⋅   SHARE Top stories Iranian attackers hit 30 Minnesota water utilities in coordinated cyberattack More than 30 Minnesota water utilities were hit in a coordinated attack on their control systems, with one town's treatment plant knocked offline. A leaked memo points to Iran, though no agency has formally accused it. Read more Hugging Face analysts turn to Chinese open source AI model to analyze aftermath of OpenAI 'rogue' model attack The Hugging Face cybersecurity breach unexpectedly strengthened China's GLM-5.2 while fuelling Washington's debate over restricting Chinese open-weight AI models. Read more Experts say DNA samples from crime-scene forensics can be undetectably modified and switched using an AI tool Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines. Read more Anthropic reveals Claude AI model hacked three companies during tests — so how worried should we be? Anthropic's testing mishap proves autonomous AI can breach enterprise networks at machine speed. The era of human-speed security is over - it takes an AI to stop an AI. Read more Expert warns this dangerous Microsoft Word worm can burrow into Copilot and cause havoc — here's what we know Hidden white text in a Word document can make Copilot rewrite your figures and copy itself into the finished file. Read more Travelers beware — Microsoft experts warn hotel Wi-Fi can be hijacked to infect your devices with dangerous malware Russian criminals are targeting hotel Wi-Fi networks with captive portals and using them to deploy infostealers. Read more Follow TechRadar Pro Contact Us: Feedback | Advertise Sign Up | Update Profile | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy | Cookies Policy | Terms and Conditions When you purchase through links in our content, we may earn an affiliate commission.   © Future Publishing Limited. Reg No. 2008885 England. Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA.