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Attackers are attempting to exploit a chain of two critical vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS to bypass SSH authentication and then obtain full administrative privileges, amid warnings of active attacks against devices exposed to the internet. MikroTik has released security updates, while Poland’s CERT recommended isolating devices suspected of compromise and rebuilding them from trusted configurations.
GitHub has launched a research preview of Project HydraFusion, which dynamically selects among multiple models and workflows to draft, review, or escalate coding solutions to a more powerful model. In offline tests, the system achieved quality comparable to or better than Claude Opus 5 in some comparisons while reducing estimated costs.