Friday Squid Blogging: Sperm Whale Eating a Giant Squid
October 11 2025Video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreAutonomous AI Hacking and the Future of Cybersecurity
October 10 2025AI agents are now hacking computers. They’re getting better at all phases of cyberattacks, faster than most of us expected. They can chain together different aspects of a cyber...
Read moreFlok License Plate Surveillance
October 9 2025The company Flok is surveilling us as we drive:
A retired veteran named Lee Schmidt wanted to know how often Norfolk, Virginia’s 176 Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras were...
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AI-Enabled Influence Operation Against Iran
October 7 2025Citizen Lab has uncovered a coordinated AI-enabled influence operation against the Iranian government, probably conducted by Israel.
Key Findings
- A coordinated network of more than 50 inauthentic X profiles is... Read more
AI in the 2026 Midterm Elections
October 6 2025We are nearly one year out from the 2026 midterm elections, and it’s far too early to predict the outcomes. But it’s a safe bet that artificial intelligence technologies...
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Read moreDaniel Miessler on the AI Attack/Defense Balance
October 3 2025His conclusion:
Context wins
Basically whoever can see the most about the target, and can hold that picture in their mind the best, will be best at finding the vulnerabilities...
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Use of Generative AI in Scams
October 1 2025New report: “Scam GPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud.”
This primer maps what we currently know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and...
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Details of a Scam
September 30 2025Longtime Crypto-Gram readers know that I collect personal experiences of people being scammed. Here’s an almost:
Then he added, “Here at Chase, we’ll never ask for your personal...
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Abusing Notion’s AI Agent for Data Theft
September 29 2025Notion just released version 3.0, complete with AI agents. Because the system contains Simon Willson’s lethal trifecta, it’s vulnerable to data theft though prompt injection.
First, the trifecta:
The...
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