Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 2/10/24
Marginalized communities hit harder by cyberattacks, Deepfakes complicate elections, AI threatens robots.txt files, Data centers scar Ireland
Marginalized communities hit harder by cyberattacks, Deepfakes complicate elections, AI threatens robots.txt files, Data centers scar Ireland
Russian penetration of US systems during SolarWinds breach was deeper than we knew, Mythos Preview users found more than 10k severe vulnerabilities, Iranian hackers were behind the LA transit system breach, Former execs plead guilty to tech support fraud scheme, much more
France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches, AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio, Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle, Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention, Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety and accountability
EU cops dismantle cybercriminals' favorite VPN service, Edmonton partnered with ethical 'scam baiters' to stop $42m in losses, Kimwolf builder Dort arrested in Canada, The Kremlin hijacked Bluesky accounts in influence op, Google accidentally leaked details about unfixed Chromium issue, much more
Cybercom to speed AI tools use, Hacker accessed GitHub repos via TanStack-compromised Nx Console VS Code extension, Ukraine cops bust 18-year-old for running infostealer op, S. Korean cops bust 32 for stealing bigwigs' financial data and PII, Microsoft issues patches for Defender flaws, much more