Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 8/27/22
Thieves bilked woman in elaborate romance scam, Peruvian "socialite" who infiltrated NATO society was a GRU operative, Teens rickrolled six schools, "OSINT" Twitter accounts in India target foes
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/28/26
CISA's year-long turmoil under Gottumukkala, Meta smart glasses expose underpaid annotators to intimate data, Border Patrol surveils SoCal civilians, DHS nominee faces ethics allegations, LLMs enable deanonymization, Tile server flaws enable mass tracking
FBI's wiretap network hit by suspected hack, maybe by the Chinese spies it was watching
US gov't contractor's son pleads guilty to stealing $46m in crypto, DoD officially labels Anthropic a supply chain risk, About half of zero-days target enterprises, Bing's AI-enhanced search pushed malicious OpenClaw installers, Ghanaian national pleads guilty to role in $100m fraud ring, much more
Conflicting accounts emerge over Plankey's departure from DHS, future as CISA head
European law enforcement busted up Tycoon2FA phishing platform, FBI and European cops take down cybercrime forum Leakbase, Phobos admin pleads guilty to wire fraud, Lawmakers call for probe into decades-old TEMPEST attacks, IDF says it bombed complex hosting Iran's cyberwar HQ, much more
The Iran war has a cyber story. It's not the one you're reading
Google warns that US government-originated iPhone hacking kit has spread to Russian intel, Altman calls the backlash to Pentagon deal 'really painful,' Defense contractors expected to jettison Anthropic, CBP is tracking people through online advertising, much more