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North Korea's cyber operation known as WaterPlum has turned the job market into a trap, infecting more than thirty thousand devices across one hundred countries by embedding malware inside coding tests sent to unsuspecting job applicants. The group has stolen over ten point seven million dollars in cryptocurrency and compromised more than seven thousand digital wallets, with security agencies in the United States, Japan, Australia, and Germany all raising the alarm.
Meanwhile, a financial story with major implications for the tech sector — reporting from the Financial Times suggests Big Tech companies are using guarantee arrangements to keep roughly three hundred billion dollars in AI-related financial exposure off their balance sheets. It's a structural question about transparency, and how honestly the industry is accounting for the enormous bets being placed on artificial intelligence.
And on the cybersecurity front more broadly, a timely reminder that the most dangerous vulnerabilities in our energy infrastructure aren't coming from rogue algorithms — they're coming from human failure. Researchers and security professionals say energy systems were already dangerously exposed long before AI entered the conversation, and the risk continues to grow.
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