German AfD Party Campaign For Dirty Energy Helps Only Putin

The AfD are campaigning hard to bring back Hitler’s pre-1941 racist forced deportation platform (Nisko and Gurs), and also to block clean energy and make Germany more dependent on foreign states like Russia. Johannes Kieß, a researcher specialisi…

Pegasus Used Against MEP Investigating Pegasus, Citizen Lab Finds

A former EU lawmaker was hacked with Pegasus spyware while investigating its use, according to Citizen Lab. The Citizen Lab published a report documenting one of the more darkly ironic findings in recent surveillance research: former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly infected with NSO Group‘s Pegasus spyware while serving on the […]

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 352

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Ireland Resort Cancels Peter Thiel Genocide Retreat for NATO

It seems the word is out that Palantir was founded by actual Nazis and has been engaged in literal genocide. The question becomes whether Peter Thiel will ever face sanctions and eventual trial, before he can start a third world war. A leaked schedule …

Nikon Offers “No Wireless” Camera Option For More Money

Seems backwards to me. You make a camera. Then you make a wireless version, which adds chips and software to the base. Nikon is claiming they went the opposite direction. They made a wireless camera, and now it costs them money to subtract hardware and…

JADEPUFFER: First End-to-End AI-Driven Ransomware Operation

Sysdig reports an AI agent ran a full ransomware attack end-to-end, exploiting flaws, stealing creds, moving laterally, and encrypting data without humans. Sysdig’s Threat Research Team has documented what it assesses to be the first ransomware operation driven end-to-end by a large language model. The operator, which Sysdig calls JADEPUFFER, broke into a server, harvested […]

Law enforcememt operation disrupted Malicious Residential Proxy Networks NetNut

Google disrupted NetNut, a major proxy network that routed internet traffic through compromised home devices used by cybercriminals. Google has disrupted NetNut, one of the world’s largest residential proxy networks. The service routed internet traffic through home devices, allowing customers to hide their real location and identity. “Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and […]

Government and Healthcare Are the Weakest Links in Global Email Security

Government and healthcare sectors have weak email security. Many domains lack SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS, leaving them open to phishing attacks. Comparitech analyzed live DNS records for 5,849 domains across 13 sectors and scored each one out of 8 points based on four standard email authentication protocols: SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS. The results […]

Government and Healthcare Are the Weakest Links in Global Email Security

Government and healthcare sectors have weak email security. Many domains lack SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS, leaving them open to phishing attacks. Comparitech analyzed live DNS records for 5,849 domains across 13 sectors and scored each one out of 8 points based on four standard email authentication protocols: SPF, DMARC, DKIM, and MTA-STS. The results […]