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Utah charges Kalshi over gambling promotion; Chinese hackers exploit US servers

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Utah has filed criminal charges against Kalshi and its CEO, Tarek R Mansour, alleging the company illegally promoted online gambling. Separately, suspected Chinese attackers have developed a custom PHP2Shell exploit, compromising 25 servers and potentially maintaining access to a US government-affiliated network. AI

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Utah charges Kalshi over gambling promotion; Chinese hackers exploit US servers

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Utah charges Kalshi and its CEO with illegally promoting online gambling Article URL: https://www. theverge.com/policy/1022400/ut ah-kalshi-criminal-charges Com

    Utah charges Kalshi and its CEO with illegally promoting online gambling Article URL: https://www. theverge.com/policy/1022400/ut ah-kalshi-criminal-charges Comments URL: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 0293879 Points: 23 # Comments: 6 https://www. theverge.com/policy/102…

    LINKS theverge.com/…/utah-kalshi-criminal-charg…
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Suspected Chinese attackers built a custom PHP2Shell exploit and rooted 25 servers Snoops 'likely still' have access to US government-affiliated network https:/

    Suspected Chinese attackers built a custom PHP2Shell exploit and rooted 25 servers Snoops 'likely still' have access to US government-affiliated network https://www. theregister.com/security/2026/ 10/29/suspected-chinese-attackers-built-a-custom-php2shell-exploit-and-rooted-25-se…

    LINKS theregister.com/…/5306456

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