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This story is wild
Chinese state-backed hackers hijacked Claude Code to run one of the first AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage
Using autonomous agents to infiltrate ~30 global companies, banks, manufacturers and government networks🤯
How the attack was carried out in 5 phases
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Let me tell you a story. One of the strangest cases in modern criminology🧬
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Between the 1990s and late 2000s, police across Germany, Austria, and France believed they were chasing one of the most dangerous women in Europe.
Her DNA kept turning up at crime scenes – robberies, car thefts, even a police killing. No one had ever seen her, yet she seemed to be everywhere
A special task force was formed – Soko Phantom - to find this mysterious “criminal mastermind,” a kind of female Godfather figure behind dozens of cases.
For years investigators chased her shadow, convinced a single woman was orchestrating crimes across borders. The evidence seemed irrefutable; DNA doesn’t lie.
Then, in 2009, the illusion collapsed. The same DNA appeared on the body of a man who had illegally entered Germany. Impossible connection.
The truth was embarrassing:
the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at the factory producing the cotton swabs used for evidence collection. Her skin cells had contaminated the swabs long before they ever reached the police.
The infamous Phantom of Heilbronn never existed.
A decade of investigation, hundreds of officers, and an entire legend – all born from a single contaminated cotton swab.
Lessons learned for cybersecurity:
- Even the most “objective” evidence can be misleading when the tools or processes behind it are flawed
- Detection isn’t truth – sometimes a recurring indicator just points to a broken tool, not a real threat
- The human factor: even the best technical systems fail through small human oversights
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Chat, we are cooked
Discord is being extorted by the people who compromised their Zendesk instance
They've got 1.5TB of age verification related photos. 2,185,151 photos
tl;dr 2.1m Discord users drivers license and/or passport might be leaked. Unknown number of e-mails
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"Anthropic is clickbaiting paying users to harvest their data for 5 years. If you don’t opt out by 28/9, all your prompts will be used for free to train their models until 2030"
@AnthropicAI 🫶
linkedin.com/posts/ownyourai…
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🎮 Remember when you first typed "Hello World"?
Get ready to do it all over again.
hello-world.iamdevloper.io
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Now that Twitter has 7 hardcore engineers left and seems to still be working fine, somewhere a Google SVP is nervously writing a memo about why they still totally need 150,000 people.
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Shoutout to @fireship_dev for covering @supabase in his latest Firebase alts vid! And keep an eye on his new channel 'Beyond Fireship' - youtube.com/watch?v=SXmYUalH…
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Pic of the Day
#infosec #cybersecurity #cybersecuritytips #pentesting #oscp #redteam #informationsecurity #cissp #CyberSec
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junior developer:
*looks something up*
*feels deep shame*
> I hope no one finds out I used google
senior developer:
> I hope no one thinks I use inefficient methods of programming such as trying to remember everything
*googles everything*
*remembers nothing*
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Becoming a software developer is a journey, not a destination.
The moment you write your first code, you’re a software developer. The rest is a journey of continuous improvement.
It’s an infinite game. The goal isn’t to win. It’s to keep playing.
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The FBI produced this nice chart comparing what kinds of privacy leaks the various messaging apps have.
We got an FBI training doc on obtaining data from secure messaging apps, and shared it w/ @AndyKroll/@RollingStone. #FOIA rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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A disproportionate amount of writing and tooling comes from companies like Facebook, Netflix, LinkedIn, Google, and Amazon. Many people assume there's a trickle-down effect: great engineers at companies with money to burn come up with good solutions to problems everyone has. 2/
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@CurdStuff @Hawkinz @andymhall @PUBG_Devs @PUBG_US Big believer in Camp Jackal here. I run a 30 minute drill daily before matches. Has it been considered being able to have your squad join your training sessions? If this were possible squads can practice pushing compounds,
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What I would really like to see from @microsoft is an online repository in which I could lookup executable files that they ship with their Windows systems
Do I ask too much?
Googling for process executables, you usually get shady web pages & clueless users asking for help
