Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted
March 12 2025Lots of interesting details in the story:
The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of...
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Thousands of WordPress Websites Infected with Malware
March 10 2025The malware includes four separate backdoors:
Creating four backdoors facilitates the attackers having multiple points of re-entry should one be detected and removed. A unique case we haven’t seen...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Loyalty Cards
March 8 2025Squid is a loyalty card platform in Ireland. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreRayhunter: Device to Detect Cellular Surveillance
March 8 2025The EFF has created an open-source hardware tool to detect IMSI catchers: fake cell phone towers that are used for mass surveillance of an area. It runs on a $20...
Read moreThe Combined Cipher Machine
March 6 2025Interesting article—with photos!—of the US/UK “Combined Cipher Machine” from WWII.
Read moreOf the five, one is a Windows vulnerability, another is a Cisco vulnerability. We don’t have any details about who is exploiting them, or how. News article. Slashdot thread.
Read moreTrojaned AI Tool Leads to Disney Hack
March 4 2025This is a sad story of someone who downloaded a Trojaned AI tool that resulted in hackers taking over his computer and, ultimately, costing him his job.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Eating Bioluminescent Squid
March 1 2025Firefly squid is now a delicacy in New York. Blog moderation policy.
Read more“Emergent Misalignment” in LLMs
February 28 2025Interesting research: “Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs“:
Abstract: We present a surprising result regarding LLMs and alignment. In our experiment, a model is finetuned to...
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UK Demanded Apple Add a Backdoor to iCloud
February 26 2025Last month, the UK government demanded that Apple weaken the security of iCloud for users worldwide. On Friday, Apple took steps to comply for users in the United...
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