News

Authorities in seven African countries have arrested 306 suspects and seized 1842 devices in Operation Red Card

Two years after a data breach that compromised almost seven million customers, 23andMe’s CEO has resigned as the company files for bankruptcy

The UK’s National Crime Agency has launched a new campaign designed to raise awareness of sextortion among teenage boys

Threat actors are looking to compromise Google accounts to further malvertising and data theft

Last month, I wrote about the UK forcing Apple to break its Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud. More recently, both Sweden and France are contemplating mandating backdoors. Both initiatives are attempting to scare people into supporting backdoors, which are—of course—are terrible idea.

Also: “A Feminist Argument Against Weakening Encryption.”

Trend Micro observed a continuous development of Albabat ransomware, designed to expand attacks and streamline operations

A security researcher has observed threat actors exploiting vulnerabilities in a driver used by CheckPoint’s ZoneAlarm antivirus to bypass Windows security measures

Attackers are exploiting user familiarity with CAPTCHAs to distribute the Lumma Stealer RAT via malicious PowerShell commands, according to HP

New research:

An associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, Deravi’s recently published paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C sheds new light on how squid use organs that essentially function as organic solar cells to help power their camouflage abilities.

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

The Atlantic has a search tool that allows you to search for specific works in the “LibGen” database of copyrighted works that Meta used to train its AI models. (The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but not the search tool.)

It’s impossible to know exactly which parts of LibGen Meta used to train its AI, and which parts it might have decided to exclude; this snapshot was taken in January 2025, after Meta is known to have accessed the database, so some titles here would not have been available to download.

Still…interesting.

Searching my name yields 199 results: all of my books in different versions, plus a bunch of shorter items.