Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 1/13/24
A grad student discovered cryptocurrencies are not anonymous, Smartphone ambient light sensors can spy on you, Cyberscams suck China into Myanmar's conflict, more
Read more
Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/17/25
The rise and fall of a dark web spiritual drug seller, How Google searches nailed an arson murderer, Crypto thieves who spurn hacking for violence, Getting rich off music bots, Storing passwords in plastic, How jailbroken LLMs cause harm
Operation Endgame deals a direct blow to the ransomware kill chain
Operation RapTor arrests 270 dark web vendors, 184m records exposed in an unsecured Elastic database, Local US governments breached via exploited Trimble Cityworks zero-day, Cetus Protocol exploited for $223m, FTC settles GoDaddy security failure charges, 3AM ransomware is on the rise, much more
Russia's APT28 accused of infiltrating Western logistics, technology firms
Int'l partners destroy Lumma Stealer infrastructure, IT contractor breach led to M&S attack, Interlock stole data from West Lothian, 70K Coinbase customers exposed, EU sanctions GRU for disinformation, Google offers secure cloud options to EU, Twin brothers destroyed FOIA requests, much more
Krebs on Security hit by 'test run' DDoS attack that peaked at 6.3 terabits of data per second
TeleMessage hack leaked broader swathe of US officials' messages than reported, Nineteen-year-old pleads guilty to PowerSchool hack, M&S to take $403m profit hit, Ohio health giant hit by Interlock ransomware, NSO Group gets cold shoulder in DC, Patel shutters FISA watchdog office, much more