Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 10/28/23

The scientist who invented captcha, AI is poisoning web search, New tool can break AI models, Biden's AI EO addresses cyberweapons, Stopping unlawful location disclosures, ICE scans social media Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of the best long-form infosec-related pieces

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 10/28/23

The scientist who invented captcha, AI is poisoning web search, New tool can break AI models, Biden's AI EO addresses cyberweapons, Stopping unlawful location disclosures, ICE scans social media

Privacy-Enhancing Feature Apple Debuted Three Years Ago Never Worked

Fancy Bear has targeted top French orgs since 2021, Operation Triangulation features four modules to steal iOS data, Cloudflare mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks, much more

Sophisticated StripedFly Spying Platform Has Infected Over One Million Victims Since 2017

Pro-Russian Winter Vivern hackers exploit webmail flaw to target European orgs, Meta cuts off pro-Palestinian groups citing hacking effort, Biden to unveil major AI EO, iLeakage reveals secrets, more

Startup Unciphered Has Developed a Technique to Hack Encrypted IronKey Thumb Drive

41 states and DC sue Meta over alleged harms to children, 23andMe informs customers of breach, Hacktivists are the primary cyber actors in Hamas war, OAuth critical API security flaws found, much more

Threat Actors Infiltrated 1Password's Okta Tenant Using Stolen IT Employee Session Cookie

Spain busts 34 alleged online scammers, OpenStreetMap new digital hostility front in Hamas war, Microsoft to spend $5 billion to help Australia's cyber shield, September broke ransomware records, more

Hackers Had Access to Okta Customer Files For At Least Two Weeks

Main Ragnar Locker perpetrator arrested, Hackers may have stolen entire DC voter roll, Philly reports hacking incident, Flaws found in SolarWinds product, Cisco issued zero day patches, much more

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 10/21/23

Garantex exchange is still thriving, Cybercrime crew's slide into physical violence, Searching for the Silk Road hacker, Israeli security firms pitch in during Hamas war, Signal's global fight, more Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of the best long-form

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 10/21/23

Garantex exchange is still thriving, Cybercrime crew's slide into physical violence, Searching for the Silk Road hacker, Israelis security firms pitch in during Hamas war, Signal's global fight, more

International Law Enforcement Operation Shut Down RagnarLocker Group

FinCEN plans to label mixers as money launderers, Moldovan man to face US charges for selling compromised computer access, OilRig breached twelve Middle Eastern gov't computers, much much more

State-Backed Cyber Actors from Russia and China Are Exploiting WinRAR Vulnerability

UK body overturns Clearview AI penalty, Finnish mental health clinic hacker faces seven years in prison, Pro-Ukraine hacktivists shut down Trigona leak site, New 23andme profiles leaked, much more

Five Eye Chiefs Band Together to Accuse China of Stealing, Hacking and Spying

CIA's Twitter account allowed hijacking of spy recruitment channel, Hamas wages psychological warfare by hijacking social media accounts, FBI warns of plastic surgery office attacks, much more