Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 10/7/23
How Intellexa sold spyware to Egypt, How phone phreakers created Apple, How one writer lost $31,000 in a pool-related BEC scam, The best password manager, PCLOB's view on Sec. 702
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Chinese state-linked hackers use DeepSeek to scale attacks
State-affiliated groups are using low-cost, lightly guarded AI models for reconnaissance, exploit development and other routine work—helping them more than double their attack volume, researchers say.
Iran-linked UK power generator attack exposes a cybersecurity blind spot
A suspected Iranian-linked cyberattack took a small UK power generator offline for four days, exposing a potential blind spot: energy assets too small to threaten the grid may also fall below the cybersecurity rules designed to protect it.
Alibaba’s Qwen races past Meta, Google with 3 billion AI model downloads
Alibaba’s Qwen family of open-weight AI models has surpassed 3 billion downloads in six months, making it the world’s most-downloaded open model ecosystem, ahead of Google and Meta. Qwen, has open-sourced more than 460 models, and its ecosystem has spawned 300l-plus derivatives/
AI, surveillance and the control problem: Best infosec long reads 8/15/26
How a jury-duty scam stole $25,000, When adversaries can just buy the data, The surveillance dragnet hiding in plain sight, AI hallucinations create new openings for attackers, When Big Tech can read your thoughts, When bots start talking to bots