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The @IBMSecurity Intelligence publication was closed earlier this year. I didn't lose all my hard work thanks to @Authory 💾
Sadly, I have worked for a lot of brand publications that were shuttered without warning.
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Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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BREAKING: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, per Axios
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BREAKING: JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, & other major banks have reportedly detected unauthorized AI agents operating inside customer accounts.
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A casino got hacked through a fish tank.
It has sensors. automated feeding, temperature control, remote monitoring.
connected to the internet. isolated on its own VPN. segregated from everything else.
Hackers still found it anyway, compromised it, pivoted to the main network.
started pulling data.
nobody monitors fish tank outbound traffic, why would they it's a fish tank.
Darktrace caught it, anomalous transfers to an external destination nobody in the building had ever talked to.
the casino had done everything right. separate network. isolated device. proper segmentation.
Still didn't matter.
The fish tank was still online, still running software, still had an attack surface.
Every device you connect is a door you didn't know you opened.
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Fake Claude, ChatGPT Attacks Surge, Putting Developers at Risk bit.ly/4yZ1Cyc By Rob Wright #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth. #CyberMonth
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Wild story from @briankrebs: 1) Dubrovsky, the arrested ransomware negotiator, knew ShinyHunters stole FBI data but never told FBI; 2) an exec from another large US negotiating firm played an active role operating ShinyHunters' victim extortion website
krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/…
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New: The FBI believes an exec at a prestigious U.S. consulting firm (1,000+ associates) helped run Shinywire, the ShinyHunters site used to extort nearly 100 victims.
The people victims hire to negotiate with hackers may have been on the other side of the table.
- Dutch police raided ShinyHunters suspect Pepijn van der Stap with flash-bangs while he was logged into Signal
- His chats showed frequent contact with ransom negotiators in the U.S. and Canada
- Those negotiators often knew about new victims before the victims knew they'd been breached
- Per sources, Edward Dubrovsky, a Canadian negotiation exec charged earlier this month, knew ShinyHunters had the FBI's personnel files and never told the FBI
- Dubrovsky's other firm, CyberSteward, helped PowerSchool pay its ~$2.85M ransom
Meanwhile ShinyHunters was griping on Telegram that Coveware kept telling victims not to pay and it was wrecking their conversion rate.
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🚨 An unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi flaw lets attackers within radio range execute code as ROOT on affected routers, without a Wi-Fi password or pairing.
Researcher demonstrated password extraction and a remote shell. Potentially impacting millions of routers.
Read - thehackernews.com/2026/10/un…
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New: Chinese hackers broke into Staples. Staples has an internal customer support tool called Nexus, Chinese hackers got into that, issued millions of dollars of gift cards. Mules then went on a spending spree across the U.S. Gang made $100 million+ 404media.co/how-a-massive-ch…
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‼️ AI agents broke into the SCADA system of Booz Allen's mock factory and took over the control room's screens.
One realised it could now send commands to every controller in the plant and "make the operator screens lie".
Another hacked a robotic arm and moved it in minutes.
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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses found recording audio without wearers' consent arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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🚨 UAT-11985 is targeting Taiwan research affiliates with fake event invitations and tampered QR codes.
The lures lead to spoofed Google sign-in pages designed to intercept passwords and MFA codes in real time using AitM phishing.
Read - thehackernews.com/2026/10/ua…
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Here's how exactly Telegram provides user data to U.S. authorities. A letter recently filed in court shows how Telegram transfers that data, such as IP address and phone number.
More: 404media.co/heres-what-teleg…
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New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI 404media.co/accenture-tells-…
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I just got a haircut. The woman who cuts my hair, her husband is an owner-operator trucker. We listened on my phone to part of the Senate Judiciary hearing with the acting labor commissioner while she trimmed. We heard senator after senator say there's just too much confusion about this ABC Test rule and something needs to change
The hairdresser told me her husband is already seeing trucking companies telling independent-contractor drivers they're done. It's just too much risk now with this rule that nobody can figure out. He's worried he'll have to sell his rig and be out of business entirely
She's asking me if I'm OK as a freelance writer, because I'm one of her longtime clients. If independent contractors like me lose our incomes and can't afford to remain her clients, then she takes a financial hit too even though she's a W-2 employee
Another woman in the salon came up to us and asked if I was the person she heard the other day on NJ101.5. She said she was listening and thinking about all the independent-contractor hairdressers in the state
I cannot stress how much New Jersey's ABC Test rule needs to be invalidated immediately, and our Legislature must act to protect us all from this madness ever happening again
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A Bosnian arms dealer has been sentenced to 5 years in US prison over a scheme to buy North Korean anti-aircraft missiles in violation of sanctions, according to the Justice Department.
nknews.org/?p=980772
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A former senior cybersecurity researcher with Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team received a care package of Russian trinkets on his doorstep after investigating Midnight Blizzard 😯: theregister.com/cyber-crime/…






















