Security News Bites for May 30, 2025

US Spy Agencies Setting Up Platform to Buy Your Data

There is so much data for the government to acquire without a search warrant that it is a problem. As a result the DNI is working on a system to make it easier to buy our data. This even includes the use of AI tools to make it easier for them to wade through that data. This system WILL INCLUDE information deemed to cause substantial harm, embarrassment and inconvenience to US persons if the data is misused. Totally legal. Credit: The Intercept

Breaking Traditional Encryption Using Quantum Computers Just Got 20 Times Easier

New research shows that RSA-2048 encryption could be cracked using a one-million-qubit system by 2030, 20x faster than previous estimates. A quantum computer with one million noisy qubits running for one week can theoretically crack RSA-2048 bit encryption, representing twenty times fewer qubits than Google’s 2019 estimate, according to new research from Google Quantum AI. Assuming Google is correct, that means we have to implement post quantum encryption a lot sooner than we thought. AND, ALL DATA COLLECTED BY CHINA (AND THE US) BEFORE WE UPGRADE IS VULNERABLE. Credit: CSO Online

Apple Says it Blocked $2 Billion in Fraud Last Year

Apple says its app store blocked about $2 billion in fraudulent transactions in 2024 and $9 billion over the last five years. Apple says they identified nearly 4.7 million stolen credit cards and banned over 1.6 million accounts. Imagine the amount of fraud that they did not catch. Credit: The Record

Defense Intelligence Agency Insider Threat Employee Arrested for Selling Intel

A civilian IT specialist at the Defense Intelligence Agency who worked In the agency’s Insider Threat Division was arrested for being an insider threat. Oops. He was caught when he tried to sell classified info to a foreign government, AKA the FBI. He said he doesn’t like Trump and wanted citizenship in that country. Credit: The Record and The Register

Thousands of Asus Routers Have Persistent Backdoor

Thousands of Asus WiFi routers, likely on your employees’ home networks, have been compromised with a very persistent backdoor. If your router has been compromised, you can look for particular indicators of compromise and manually clean them up or you can do a factory reset and install the patches. Router models affected include the AC3100, AC3200 and AX55. Credit: The Register

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