Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 3/22/25
The Signal leak makes NSA's job harder, How to launder $27B from online scams, Be afraid of Q-Day, RISC architecture *is* changing everything, How to tell your online accounts have been hacked
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Anthropic watch: Dispute widens as customers, allies and investors react
Bulgarian spyware firm sold tools to repressive regimes, The Gentlemen claims attack on sugar mills, FortiBleed exposes 73k Fortinet VPN credentials, Startup competition leak exposes 5k applicants, Canada spy agency disrupted botnets, Fake YouTube gurus spread crypto-stealing malware, much more
Anthropic watch: Congress scrambles, Europe recoils, and Anthropic's halo grows brighter
Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive power network, Cybercrime now accounts for a third of crimes in parts of Asia, France picks local rival to replace Palantir at spy agency, Americans lost $3.5B to imposter scams last year, Hackers hijack Roblox games by seizing dev accounts, much more
Why the White House turned on Anthropic
Chinese spies hid in research networks for two years, Copilot bug let attackers steal Microsoft 365 data, Crypto scammers now send couriers for cash, Judge keeps Meta AI scraping lawsuit alive, Feds dismantle $389m crypto laundering op, iRhythm reports breach after extortion demand, much more
Section 702 Expires, but the US Isn't Going Dark
Feds seize major deepfake porn sites, Cyberattack disrupts services at four major Iranian banks, Trump orders cybersecurity overhaul for national security systems, Conti ransomware coder pleads guilty in US case, Chinese spies hid in critical infrastructure network for a decade, much more