Risky Bulletin

Three DataSuckers hacking group suspects arrested in Russia, Al Jazeera employees targeted with Candiru spyware, the US disrupts 40 North Korean laptop farms, and an OpenAI employee was arrested for planting a spy device.



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Risky Bulletin: Russia arrests DataSuckers hacking group

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about Russian targeting of Ukrainian data centres. That’s not good, but it looks like Russia is very poorly prepared for Ukraine’s retaliatory strikes. Karma!

They also discuss how open-weight models are getting good at cyber tasks while safeguards are easily bypassed. There is no chance of international regulation that will rein in these models, so it is time to loosen cyber safety restrictions on American frontier models.

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Spyware chips found inside Ledger crypto-wallets, a cyberattack defrosts supermarket freezers across France, Dutch-owned supermarkets go offline in multiple countries following a cyberattack, and the EU wants smart glasses to beep loudly when they’re recording.



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Risky Bulletin: Spyware chip found in Ledger crypto-wallets

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine how ShinyHunters and the FBI both deceived themselves into believing they were immune to cyber threats.

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Krebs On Security


FBI Director Kash Patel on ShinyHunters


Brett Leatherman, the FBI Assistant Director for Cyber on ShinyHunters


Hacker's Manifesto, 1986


FBI and Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance


FBI padding the top 10 list arrest numbers

Two ShinyHunters suspects arrested in Jordan and the US, hackers breach TLD registrars to get valid Google certs, Japanese authorities arrest a Qilin ransomware member and Google suspends its open-source bug bounty program after a flood of AI bug reports.



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Risky Bulletin: ShinyHunters suspects arrested in US and Jordan