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Researchers at Black Lotus Labs have uncovered a clever and unsettling cryptomining campaign called Canto Incognito. The malware, known as PoeLLM, hid its command-and-control instructions inside a poem published on GitHub — four specific words encoding the address of its next server. More than thirty-four hundred victim machines were compromised before the campaign was tracked, with the poem quietly altered eleven times since April of twenty twenty-six.
On a darker front, a new report from Booz Allen Hamilton is raising serious alarms about AI and critical infrastructure. The firm's security researchers say autonomous AI systems are now fully capable of identifying and attacking industrial equipment — the kind that controls water treatment and power grids. The window for defenders to respond, they warn, could be measured in minutes.
And in a story that crosses into tech territory, Pope Leo, the seventy-one-year-old American pontiff, is scheduled for surgery after a nodular lesion was discovered on his lung. Vatican officials say it was caught at a very early stage, and the procedure is expected within the next few days. His overall health profile is described as strong.
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