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
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
France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches, AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio, Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle, Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention, Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety and accountability
EU cops dismantle cybercriminals' favorite VPN service, Edmonton partnered with ethical 'scam baiters' to stop $42m in losses, Kimwolf builder Dort arrested in Canada, The Kremlin hijacked Bluesky accounts in influence op, Google accidentally leaked details about unfixed Chromium issue, much more
Cybercom to speed AI tools use, Hacker accessed GitHub repos via TanStack-compromised Nx Console VS Code extension, Ukraine cops bust 18-year-old for running infostealer op, S. Korean cops bust 32 for stealing bigwigs' financial data and PII, Microsoft issues patches for Defender flaws, much more
White House release of EO on cyber and AI safety is imminent, Microsoft took down malware service Fox Tempest, A bug in a Huawei enterprise router caused Luxembourg telecoms outage last year, Mini Shai-Hulud malware resurfaces across hundreds of npm packages, much more