Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 10/1/22

The CIA burned Iranian informants, Lawrence Abrams tried to steer ransomware gangs away from hospitals, The pedestrian nature of surveillance, IPVM blows China's surveillance cover, more
The CIA burned Iranian informants, Lawrence Abrams tried to steer ransomware gangs away from hospitals, The pedestrian nature of surveillance, IPVM blows China's surveillance cover, more
Take It Down Act goes to Trump's desk, Musk DOGE boys given access to highly guarded nuclear weapon data, Scattered Spider might be behind M&S attack, Zero days exploited in the wild dropped in 2024, British defense firms warned away from Chinese EVs, 4chan back after hack, so much more
Meta's AI digital companions do not protect underage users from sexually explicit banter, UK commissioner calls for ban on apps that create sexual images of children, SK Telecom plummets in wake of cyberattack, DeFi protocol Loopscale loses $5.8m in exploit, Juice-jacking mitigation found, much more
How young hackers got caught after stealing a quarter of a billion in crypto, What Hegseth's SignalGate really teaches us, Why the US needs to protect transparent security research, All web browsers except Tor are insecure, The divergent cybercrime paths of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran
DPRK hackers used Russian internet infrastructure, Lazarus Group targeted multiple businesses in Operation SyncHole, DPRK workers use genAI for US and European jobs, Scattered Spider member extradited to US, Antitrust probe launched into TP-Link, FBI tracks down Nigerian sextortionists, much more