Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 1/13/24
A grad student discovered cryptocurrencies are not anonymous, Smartphone ambient light sensors can spy on you, Cyberscams suck China into Myanmar's conflict, more
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AI guardrails under fire from researchers and regulators
Scattered Spider suspect extradited to US, House panel accuses Korea of targeting Coupang, cyberattack hits Malaysian parking app, Aflac Japan breach affects 4.4M customers, AI agent carries out extortion attack, Ukraine stops 16K Russian cyberattacks, ChocoPoC RAT hides in GitHub PoCs, much more.
Anthropic restores Fable 5 and Mythos 5, launches Sonnet 5
China's Mythos rival fuels AI arms race. Taiwan probes claimed PChome hack, Alberta voter leak sparks lawsuit, Hackers breach DHS sharing network, Apple privacy feature exposes emails, Adobe fixes critical ColdFusion bugs, Crypto thieves stole $76m in June, much more
Apple faces supply chain leak as AI threats accelerate security updates
Meta secretly benchmarked rival chatbots with fake teen accounts, S.Ct. curbs warrantless geofence searches, Google warns EU competition rules could weaken security, Russia shifts influence operations toward the West, Amazon settles identity theft records case for $2.25m, much more
Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap
Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US organizations, OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview, Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance, 360 Security says it has achieved Mythos-style vulnerability discovery, much more