Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 2/18/23
Scammers are using fake receipts to target users of payment apps in South America, America's overclassification crisis, How two reporters secretly recorded "Jorge," AI's hacking threat
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Leaked DarkSword iPhone spyware lowers bar for mass exploitation
FCC bans import of all new foreign-made routers, Foster City officially declares state of emergency following attack, German federal police visited Windchill and FlexPLM users in the wee hours to warn them of a severe flaw, Scioto County employees fell victim to phishing, much more
Russian spies hijack Signal and WhatsApp accounts in campaign targeting officials and journalists
Supply chain attack compromised Trivy vulnerability scanner, UK Financial Conduct Authority gave Palantir access to sensitive data, Hackers stole $23m in Ether from DeFi protocol Resolv Labs, Bluenoroff group stole 18.5k purchase records from gift card platform Bitrefill, much more
Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 3/14/26
Industrialized scam compounds pull out all the stops to impersonate police, How Switzerland's SCION aims to replace BGP, Grassroots local resistance to Flock surveillance is growing, Existing law is inadequate to govern commercial spyware, Russia's sovereign internet is backfiring
US dismantles major botnet networks, but Mirai’s evolution keeps the threat alive
Cops take down 373k scam darknet sites posting as CSAM sites, FBI seizes two Handala sites, Man convicted on extortion counts after sensitive contractor data theft, Man pleads guilty to AI-assisted streaming fraud, Admin unveils AI legislative framework, much more