Security
A second wave of attacks on refrigeration controllers hits more than 100 European stores
Fridges and freezers warmed overnight at shops in six countries, three weeks after a similar attack on about 700 French supermarkets.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Security
Google takes down XCPE, a botnet its maker built into more than 1.3 million Android TV boxes
Google says the Chinese manufacturer Videostrong installed the backdoor deliberately. The takedown also cut access to at least 10 million other compromised devices.
Security
Attackers drain Bitcoin and Litecoin hot wallets on outdated BTCPay Server instances
The project says the attacks hit versions 2.4.1 and earlier and urges operators to install version 2.4.7.
Business & Policy
Marvell agrees to buy optical-components maker Lumentum in a $115 billion all-stock deal
The custom chipmaker is betting that AI data centers will keep needing more optical connections, despite investor doubts about AI spending.
Business & Policy
New York Times and three other newspapers sue Brave, accusing it of selling scraped journalism to AI companies
The suits say Brave's search index of more than 30 billion pages relies on a crawler that publishers cannot identify or block.
Business & Policy
Anthropic's revised IPO filing warns of safety risks as it approaches recursive self-improvement
The amended S-1 says using AI to build more capable AI could pose a considerable safety risk if it sharply speeds up progress.
Models
Anthropic adds message threads to the Claude API so agents can stop resending entire conversations
The beta feature cuts the wait before Claude replies by about 35% on very long sessions. Prices and rate limits are unchanged.
Research
ERASE defends multimodal models against prompt injection by teaching them to read past the injected region
In the authors' tests on image, audio and video, the method nearly eliminated observed attacks while keeping task accuracy close to clean-input levels.
Sources in this edition
Google takes down XCPE, a botnet its maker built into more than 1.3 million Android TV boxes
- BleepingComputerGoogle disrupts million-device XCPE Android malware botnet, bans TV box maker
- CyberScoopGoogle shuts down global botnet running on certified Android devices
- SecurityWeekGoogle Dismantles XCPE Botnet of 1.3 Million Android Devices
- Security AffairsInside XCPE, the botnet that turned 1.3M set-top boxes into proxy servers