Bluesky Back Online After DDoS Attack, as Iran-Linked 313 Team Takes Credit
Bluesky is back online after a roughly 24-hour DDoS attack disrupted services, with the Iran-linked 313 Team claiming responsibility and no data breach reported.
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Mythos Mystery in Mozilla Numbers: How 22 Vulns Became 271 or Maybe 3 in April
Two documents landed on April 21, 2026 and I’ve been asked by many people to comment on them. One is Bobby Holley’s Mozilla blog post announcing that Firefox 150 ships fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified by Claude Mythos Preview. The o…
Tesla is Pouring Cancer Into Texas
Hexavalent chromium. Arsenic. Where? Tesla’s lithium refinery wastewater near Corpus Christi. In a ditch. Both are IARC Group 1 carcinogens. Both are absent from Tesla’s state wastewater permit. Why can Group 1 carcinogens be dumped by Tesl…
Iran’s Missile Power in the Heart of Public Squares: A Night of Defensive Might
On Tuesday evening, coinciding with the 52nd consecutive night of popular gatherings in squares across all Iranian cities, the IRGC’s Aerospace Force displayed ballistic missiles — including Qadr, Fateh, Kheibar, and Khorramshahr — in several public s…
Cash is Back, Baby!
Australians are using more cash, because cash is cool. Cash is availability. Cash is privacy. The Reserve Bank of Australia survey shows the share rising for regular purchases after two decades of displacement by payment card brand pressure. Two-thirds…
DoJ Protects KKK by Indicting America’s Leading Anti-Hate Group
Montgomery, Alabama. April 21, 2026. The district where Klansmen firebombed the SPLC office in 1983. They’re back to attack the SPLC again. The district where United Klans of America operated until SPLC civil litigation bankrupted it in 1987 afte…
Ransomware negotiator caught secretly assisting BlackCat extortion scheme
Angelo Martino pleaded guilty to helping BlackCat ransomware group while acting as a ransomware negotiator. Another U.S. cybersecurity expert, Angelo Martino, admitted helping the BlackCat ransomware group while working as a ransomware negotiator. Angelo Martino (41) admitted helping the BlackCat ransomware group while working for a U.S. incident response firm. “A Florida man, formerly employed […]
North Korea’s Lazarus APT stole $290M from Kelp DAO
North Korea-linked Lazarus Group stole $290M from Kelp DAO by abusing LayerZero. A second $95M attempt was stopped. Hackers tied to the North-Korea linked group Lazarus APT carried out a $290M crypto theft targeting Kelp DAO. Kelp DAO is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on the Ethereum ecosystem that focuses on a concept called […]
Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.
AI Use Turns You Into “a very stupid man”. Just like General Patton
In early 1945 Peter Sichel was twenty-two years old and running OSS operations in Germany. His unit sent German prisoners of war back across the lines to gather intelligence on Wehrmacht troop movements. The operations worked. General George S. Patton …