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Conditional code considered cryptographically counterproductive.

“Pig butchering” is the colorful name given to online cons that trick the victim into giving money to the scammer, thinking it is an investment opportunity. It’s a rapidly growing area of fraud, and getting more sophisticated.

The latest iteration of the document is now analyzing activity by the Maui and H0lyGh0st groups

Reddit said there was “no indication” of a breach of the company’s primary production systems

Avast also warns of increase in tech support fraud

Threat actor has been dubbed TA866 by Proofpoint

Some industrial systems have been exposed for three years

Reversing Labs said aabquerys was able to download second- and third-stage malware payloads

Tuesday was the official publication date of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back. It broke into the 2000s on the Amazon best-seller list.

Reviews in the New York Times, Cory Doctorow’s blog, Science, and the Associated Press.

I wrote essays related to the book for CNN and John Scalzi’s blog.

Two podcast interviews: Keen On and Lawfare. And a written interview for the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Lots more coming, I believe. Get your copy here.

And—last request—right now there’s one Amazon review, and it’s not a good one. If people here could leave reviews, I would appreciate it.

I had no idea—until I read this incredibly jargon-filled article:

Squid is a cross-chain liquidity and messaging router that swaps across multiple chains and their native DEXs via axlUSDC.

So there.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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