Catalin Cimpanu
campuscodi@mastodon.social
<p>Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>security</span></a></p>
Posts
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Post #4497534
Mozilla rotates GPG signing subkey for official Firefox and Thunderbird releases after the previous one leaked (it was inadvertently committed to a private GitHub repository) https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-releases/
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Post #4496538
Russia's Sandworm follows North Korea and Iran and adopts the fake IT job interview as a malware delivery vector https://cert.gov.ua/article/6318863
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Post #4487458
-Pwnie Awards 2026 winners -Metabase zero-day used in data theft attacks -Russian hackers disrupted a second power plant in Poland last year -Two US law firms pay mega ransoms -New WordPress RCE -BdThemes supply chain attack -Coweta city refuses to pay ransom -Suisun declares local emergency after cyberattack hits 911 system -More attacks on US water systems -Victoria court data leaked on dark web -Breaches at LeviStrauss, Updoc, Framework N: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-pwnie-awards-2...
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Post #4479043
The Silent ransom group made $28m in just two attacks ≖‿≖ https://bsky.app/profile/raphae.li/post/3msjcgdmqxk2h
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Post #4434258
-Meta's AI joins Anthropic and OpenAI in the hacky-hacky -AISI also loses track of AI models in a test -Cyberattack disrupts North Carolina ports -The Philippines will establish a cybersecurity agency -Ransom Cartel admin gets 16 years -Hackers target US hedge funds -Panama Metro sees cyberattack -Italy makes room for military cyber units -China launches Palo Alto Networks probe -Indiana establishes cybersecurity office N: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-metas-ai-joins-anthropic-and-o...
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Post #4387243
Beacon CRM got hacked Many orgs are now disclosing downstream breachs https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7km34z112o https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/breaking-scores-of-cultural-organisations-affected-by-possible-data-breach-after-cyber-attack https://www.cse.org.uk/news/beacon-crm-incident/
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Post #4385662
Microsoft will reduce NuGet API keys lifespan from 365 to 30 days -change enters into effect August 17 -On November 1, Microsoft will invalidate all old NuGet API keys created before August 17. -shorter lifespan is meant to counter supply chain attacks https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/strengthening-nuget-supply-chain-security-reducing-api-key-lifetime/
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Post #4381454
Coinkite has destroyed all its inventory of Coldcare hardware crypto-wallets after hackers exploited a bug in existing devices to steal close to $100 million from user offline hardware wallets https://blog.coinkite.com/update-sunday/
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Post #4366337
Live streams from the BSides Las Vegas 2026 security conference, which is taking place this week, are available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BsideslvOrg/streams
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Post #4351927
-Russia is behind the recent hotel WiFi hacks -Anthropic models also did the hacky-hacky -npm adds publish-time malware scanning -Coldcard hacked for $70m -CyberCom to open Silicon Valley office -Iran water hacks impacted seven states -Wemix hacked again -DNC falls for BEC scam -Google pauses Google Earth genAI feature over disinformation fears -Telco data breach reporting rules under assault again -SMS blaster arrested in Malaysia P: https://risky.biz/RBNEWS595/ N: https://news.risky.biz/risky...
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Post #4271922
-Non-profit offers $22,000 bounty for INC ransomware group -Hackers breach the UK Department for Education -Russia charges Pavel Durov -FCC bans foreign robots and power inverters -Minnesota water attacks linked to Iran -Adform hacked to spread malware -OpenAI-Hugging Face come out -Unitel hacked ahead of IPO -SplitVPN hacked -CubePilot DNS hijacking event -KT fined $37m for breaches -CareCloud breach -ExfilSquad goes on a hacking spree N: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-non-profit-offers...
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Post #4242056
Bruh... there's a "master key" that grants access to every Cosmos DB on Azure? Wut? https://www.wiz.io/blog/cosmosescape-taking-over-every-database-in-azure-cosmos-db
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Post #4241490
The US government has banned the import of foreign-made robots and power inverters on the grounds of national security Most of these products are produced and imported from China https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adds-foreign-produced-power-inverters-and-robots-covered-list
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Post #4190101
-Cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities -New Chinese cyber contractor identified -Denmark readies secondary banking system in case of cyberattacks -North Korea busts bank hackers -Cyberattack closes US clinics -Claude chats leak online -Bank of Baroda hack in India -Frontier Airlines had 3 breaches -Microsoft releases cyber model -Tech companies launch Open Secure AI Alliance -Moonshot open-sources Kimi K3 N: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-new-chinese-cyber-con...
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Post #4173932
RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116999208190841327 Make that 30+ now: https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-761869
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Post #4171718
The number of Minnesota towns that reported hacks of their water systems is up to four -Braham: https://dysruptionhub.com/braham-minnesota-water-cyberattack/ -Maple Plain: https://dysruptionhub.com/maple-plain-water-cyber-incident/ -Plymouth: https://dysruptionhub.com/plymouth-minnesota-water-cyberattack/ -St. Paul: https://dysruptionhub.com/south-st-paul-water-cyber-incident/
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Post #4170520
Pop star Ariana Grande has sued two hackers for stealing and unreleasing unreleased music and studio footage. The hackers allegedly stole the materials from her photographers and producers. https://www.tmz.com/2026/07/27/ariana-grande-sues-hackers/
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Post #4169794
The Danish central bank is building a secondary payment system that will activate in case of a cyberattack that cripples the country's normal banking sector https://gfmag.com/news/denmark-readies-emergency-reserve-bank/
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Post #4169740
Binance has changed an internal policy and appears to intentionally delay all law enforcement requests related to scammers and money laundering investigations https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/binance-crypto-crime.html
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Post #4168619
North Korean authorities have arrested a cybercrime group who hacked two of the country's banks The group was led by discharged veterans from North Korea's intelligence service, as well as students recruited from two Pyongyang universities https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-elite-bank-hacking-ring-arrested/
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Post #4150438
New spyware mystery just dropped: AngrySpark spyware, used against one target in the UK: https://medium.com/@billmarczak/an-angry-spark-or-a-triangle-in-disguise-ac32852a1be3 Some infrastructure overlaps with Operation Triangulation against Kaspersky: https://medium.com/@billmarczak/an-angry-spark-or-a-triangle-in-disguise-ac32852a1be3
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Post #4145531
Moonshot AI releases the Kimi K3 model weights and technical report https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3 https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3/blob/main/k3_tech_report.pdf
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Post #4145201
The Cloud Security Alliance has released a post-mortem of the OpenAI hack of Hugging Face HF apparently reviewed and cleared the report https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/hugging-face-ciso-post-mortem
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Post #4135608
-RCE bug in popular Java JSON library -Scam compounds expand in Myanmar despite crackdown -Google has a new APT naming scheme -Bug lets you swap executable of legitimate macOS apps -RubyGems API leak -Kimi lags behind Western cyber models -Dependabot gets a 3-day cooldown -Signal disappearing messages now cover calls too -Social media networks are hiding their data from academics -US lawmakers propose AI Kill Switch Act P: https://risky.biz/RBNEWS592/ N: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-a-...
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Post #4110485
XCharge EV charging stations can be hacked via the charging port because the connector apparently runs SSH with root/root as the default creds https://www.saiflow.com/blog/the-hidden-ccs2-attack-surface-on-ev-chargers
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Post #4109028
Moonshot's Kimi K3 AI model performs significantly below the cyber capabilities of AI models released by US frontier labs Kimi guardrails also failed to stop users from developing exploits https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/preliminary-assessment-of-kimi-k3s-cyber-capabilities
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Post #4101854
US lawmakers have proposed a bill that would force AI companies to build killswitches to shut down or throttle powerful AI models The bill was proposed a week after OpenAI admitted to losing control of two models that ended up hacking AI platform Hugging Face https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-lieu-and-moran-introduce-bill-require-kill-switch-ai-systems-can
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Post #4076145
Google has a new APT naming scheme https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/updated-cyber-threat-actor-naming-system/
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Post #4061591
-Western cyber agencies warn of Russian hacks of Zimbra servers -US accuses Moonshot AI of distillation attacks -Iran is targeting more PLC vendors -Google adds selfie video login -Thailand's Ministry of Finance hacked with an AI agent -Stadler Rail held for ransom for $12m -Breaches at Origin Energy, UpBound, Chick-fil-A -Wanchain hacked for $10m -AFX Trade hacked for $24m -Verus hacked for $7.5m, second time this year P: https://risky.biz/RBNEWS591/ N: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulleti...
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Post #4036780
CISA has updated its "Iran attacks PLCs" advisory to add info about attacks on Siemens and Schneider Electric devices Initial attacks only targeted Rockwell and Allen-Bradley PLCs New TTPs and IOCs added too https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa26-097a