Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 10/1/22

The CIA burned Iranian informants, Lawrence Abrams tried to steer ransomware gangs away from hospitals, The pedestrian nature of surveillance, IPVM blows China's surveillance cover, more
The CIA burned Iranian informants, Lawrence Abrams tried to steer ransomware gangs away from hospitals, The pedestrian nature of surveillance, IPVM blows China's surveillance cover, more
Myanmar's junta benefits from cyberscams, Cyberscams could be behind the Thai-Cambodia conflict, Africans are tricked into cyberscam compounds, How China's propaganda and surveillance work, Vibe coding is risky, Ross Ulbricht is very lucky, Don't steal the phone of a hacker's girlfriend
Akira is exploiting critical flaw in SonicWall, Vietnamese government warns of National Credit Information Center hack, UK ICO warns that kids are hacking their schools, Opposition to EU Chat Control scanning of encrypted messages grows, New infostealer dubbed ModStealer stays invisible, much more
US is the top investor in global spyware, Kenyan authorities accused of installing spyware on filmmakers' phones, GOP senators press Zuckerberg on WhatsApp whistleblower's claims, Wyden accuses Microsoft of negligence in Ascension attack, CISA says CVE should remain public, much more
US tech giants enable human rights abuse in China, BlackDB.cc operator pleads guilty, Microsoft issues 80 Patch Tuesday fixes, Pakistan has built sweeping surveillance system, Apple targets spyware with Memory Integrity Enforcement, Korean telco KT on hot seat for 278 mobile fraud cases, much more