Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 8/6/22
How the Jester created CounterSocial, High-tech surveillance along the Arizona border is deadly, Faux CIA operative and cyber firm owner scammed victims, Why ransomware persists
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Texas AG sues TP-Link, saying it allowed the CCP to hack routers
A hacker gained access to a French national bank database with 1.2m accounts, Microsoft 365 Copilot bug summarized confidential emails, DEF CON bans Epstein's hacking associates, Deutsche Bahn operations disrupted by cyberattack, Polish army bans Chinese cars, much more
ID documents for billionaires and top politicians at Abu Dhabi conference were exposed online
Angola journalist was hacked with Intellexa spyware, Poland arrests Phobos ransomware affiliate, Severe flaw found in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machine, Hacker who paid only a penny for a luxury hotel room busted in Spain, Oz financial technology company YouX suffered a massive breach, much more
DOGE linked to potential Russian, Chinese access to OPM systems, report
Palo Alto: attackers have moved from AI experimentation to AI operationalization, Dragos discovered three new ICS threat groups, European Parliament disabled AI features over cybersecurity concerns, Kenyan authorities used Cellebrite on human rights activist's phone, much more
Pentagon challenges Anthropic over mass surveillance, autonomous weapons curbs
UK moves to tighten online safety laws after xAI's Grok debacle, Iran is spying on and retaliating against protestors, DHS is spying on anti-ICE social media posters, Threat actors abuse DNS queries in ClickFix attacks, Tulsa airport confirms attacker access, much more