hacker. Founder: @cryptoharlem Safety &security expert. Public Interest Technologist. awarded by: @Newsweek @Vice @Cyberscoop @EFF +more

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🔴 Mind Blowers 🔴 Paradigm Shifters 🔴 Enterprising Idealists and many more... Introducing Newsweek's inaugural list of 50 visionaries, innovators and pioneers who are transforming the world through technology. #NewsweekDisruptors Read more: newsweek.com/2021/12/24/amer…
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📢📢📢My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders at simonandschuster.com/books/D… I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣
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❗️ The Dutch intelligence service AIVD is warning people not to hold confidential conversations in or near their cars, saying the microphones in many modern vehicles can technically be switched on remotely to eavesdrop. Some state actors can request car data from carmakers and other companies or hack in to get it themselves, the agency says. It advises skipping wireless charging and Bluetooth or Wi-Fi pairing, using a USB data blocker and not taking a car with an external camera to a sensitive location.
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For anyone who heard me tell Red Bull’s story again on Fresh Air today: He still needs your help. Please see the GoFundMe, which I have vetted, below. And thank you for whatever you can give.
Red Bull, the scam compound whistleblower from my story below, is struggling to rebuild his life in a new country. He desperately needs tuition funds to keep his student visa, avoid deportation and stay safe. Anything you can give would go a long way: gofundme.com/f/support-whist…
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~ Personal news ~ I left TechCrunch. I will now focus on finishing my book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. After that, and in the meantime, I will be freelancing. Contact me: [email protected] or Signal @ LorenzoFB.1337 (+1 917 257 1382)
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Do not miss this Wednesday 08/12/2026 !
I’m hosting a Reddit AMA with Zack Whittaker of @TechCrunch on August 12th at 5pm PT / 8pm ET to answer questions about the recent case of an American charged by the DOJ for allegedly wiping his phone with a "duress" password during a border search. reddit.com/r/pwnhub/comments…
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Hugging Face shared that it detected and responded to a security incident earlier this week that “was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system.” And, of course, they “detected and dissected it largely with AI” as well. huggingface.co/blog/security…
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"Myth-making is a crucial aspect of the AI industry, and black boxes are woven into the stories they tell."
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I'll be back at @reconmtl teaching a training with @KeithRamphal, we'll be bringing our combined malware reverse engineering experience to the masses! Whatever runs, wherever it runs, cause the days of your boring ol' Windows C bot are over. recon.cx/2026/en/trainingAdv…
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The FLARE team now freely distributes its quality reverse engineering and malware analysis educational content at github.com/mandiant/flare-le…. Launched with: - Malware Analysis Crash Course - Go Reversing Reference - Intro to TTD
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Apple’s Lockdown Mode feature is the best defense we have against spyware on iOS, macOS, watchOS, and iPadOS. Apple launched the feature four years ago and has not yet seen a device with Lockdown Mode on be compromised. techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/ap…
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🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it. They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks. The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory. Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word. Then it got worse. The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else. It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors. One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked. Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted. Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher. That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites. Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights. This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.
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Hundreds of millions of actively-used iPhones and iPads are now at risk of being hacked through exploit tools that have been made available on Github. For anyone not using the latest iOS 26 software, it's time to update ASAP. “This is bad. They are way too easy to repurpose. I don’t think that can be contained anymore. So we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this," one security expert at @IsMyPhoneHacked told us. spr.ly/6019B6wNcx
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Good reporting by @lorenzofb to confirm what we reported as a theory last week: That the highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit known as Coruna, found in the hands of Russian spies and now criminal hackers, is an out-of-control US-government-funded creation. techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/an…
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Google has identified an iOS exploit kit named Coruna. 5 full exploit chains, 23 vulnerabilities, documentation in native English, modular architecture. Full professionalism. It must have cost millions of dollars. Who built it? Google doesn’t say, but the evidence points to US government tools. The kit also contains components previously used in a cyber operation that Russia attributed to the NSA. Coruna traveled. First, an anonymous “company client”, then used by a Russian cyber espionage group, which hid the code on Ukrainian websites inside a visitor-counter script, delivering it only to selected users from a specific geolocation. Later a financially motivated actor “operating from China” deployed it (infecting over 42,000 devices). The malware added to the ready-made kit was lower quality than the original suggesting the tools were acquired and modified by someone else. One US government subcontractor, Peter Williams, just received a 7-year prison sentence for selling tools to Russian broker Operation Zero. The US government spent millions on a tool that now steals cryptocurrency. A good return on investment, just not for themselves. One more detail: Coruna did not attack devices with Lockdown Mode enabled.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ cloud.google.com/blog/topics…
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Verification: "Any other platform to confirm you’re still you?"
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I am quoted in this article that I recommend anyone read. Always useful advice . Prepare & prxatice before you need it. Get ready, stay ready.
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