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Pig butchering “as a service” is the latest off-the-shelf cybersecurity threat.

Wonderful, Wednesday! Look, we all love software—right? Well, not if you’re on Wall Street, where software stocks are slipping.

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Pig butchering... as a service

Executive shuffle

Hardware bump

—Billy Hurley, Eoin Higgins

CYBERSECURITY

Red mouse shattering a speech bubble; signifying a cyberattack on comms

Francis Scialabba

Just when you thought the cyberattack known as “pig butchering” couldn’t sound any worse, a new report from network security company Infoblox is spotlighting a new twist: pig butchering…as a service.

Pig butchering refers to a social-engineering attack that convinces victims to invest their money into fake investment platforms controlled by the scammer.

According to the Infoblox study released on Jan. 8, service providers operating in Southeast Asia are using “as-a-service” kits to expand the scam even more rapidly.

How fast can they scam?BH

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IT OPERATIONS

Delta airplane against blue sky with illustrations of clouds

Niv Bavarsky

Lucius DiPhillips joined Adobe on January 20, a coup for the software company. DiPhillips has 25 years experience in digital security and leadership, including almost eight years at Airbnb where he was most recently CIO.

DiPhillips’s career includes stints at eBay, where he was VP of product and engineering, and executive roles at PayPal, Bank of America, and GE. His hiring is part of Adobe’s focus on AI; Daniel Durn, Adobe CFO, said in a statement that DiPhillips’s “vision will be instrumental as we continue to scale and innovate in the era of AI.”

Here’s who else shuffled around.EH

HARDWARE

Collaged images of AI training cluster, binary code, and hands installing hardware equipment. (Credit: Illustration: Anna Kim, Photos: Adobe Stock)

Illustration: Anna Kim, Photos: Adobe Stock

It paid to be a hardware engineer in 2025, according to data from Levels.fyi—largely because of the desire among companies for AI-powered operations.

The increasing use of AI and automation requires professionals who can support a growing demand for the custom GPUs, chips, data centers, and other hardware connected to IT infrastructure.

“There’s a huge demand for AI/ML infrastructure,” Levels.fyi co-founder Zuhayeer Musa said, adding that the hardware profession—which has perhaps taken a back seat to software roles in recent years—is seeing a “resurgence.”

Surging on.BH

PATCH NOTES

Picture of data with "Clean Me" written on it + bottle of cleaner in front of it, Patch Notes

Francis Scialabba

Today’s top IT reads.

Stat: 162. That’s how many companies in New York have filed notice of mass layoffs since March 2025—and not one has cited AI as a determining factor in the cuts. (Wired)

Quote: “You don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”—an engineer to UC Berkeley researchers studying AI-related burnout (TechCrunch)

Read: OpenAI killed a popular ChatGPT model. Why? (the Wall Street Journal)

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