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June 23 0400 UTC Brief
In cyber and security
Researchers say the AryStinger botnet is exploiting decade-old flaws in unsupported D-Link routers, turning roughly 4,300 end-of-life devices into a proxy network for scanning targets and hiding attacker activity. The point is not subtle, it is to build infrastructure now so future attacks have somewhere to stand.
In a separate campaign, Microsoft says the North Korean-linked group BlueNoroff compromised a Mastra npm maintainer account and pushed more than 140 malicious packages into AI development environments, including tools for stealing credentials and installing backdoors.
President Trump also signed executive orders aimed at speeding the federal shift to post-quantum cryptography by 2030, expanding investment and counterintelligence efforts around future cryptographic threats.
US road safety regulators have opened a probe after a Tesla Model 3 reportedly operating in self-driving mode crashed into a Texas home and killed a woman.
In U.S. news
Philadelphia police say three women were found dead in a home in what investigators are treating as an apparent murder-suicide. Authorities said one woman shot the other two before turning the gun on herself, and the homicide unit is still investigating.
Authorities in Arizona have withheld key details for months in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC Today anchor Savannah Guthrie. She has now been missing for more than 20 weeks after what investigators describe as a suspected armed abduction from her home.
Police in North Coventry Township say a man was shot by officers Monday evening, and the incident is under investigation.
In diplomacy and politics
Lower-level US and Iranian officials are continuing technical talks in Switzerland after senior figures departed, with both sides trying to turn the discussion into a concrete agreement. The talks are still moving, which is more than most diplomatic headlines can promise.
In the U.K.
South Yorkshire Police has launched an investigation after video appeared to show an officer punching girls during a street scuffle in Rotherham. The force says it is reviewing all available footage, including body-worn video, to determine what happened before, during, and after the incident.
In business and markets
Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan has died at 100. He was one of the most influential economic policymakers of the modern era, whether people liked the result or not.
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