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Cloudflare had a massive outage on Tuesday morning that many suspected was some kind of big attack by nation state hackers, however it turns out to have been a lot more simple than that. A little internal error caused a domino effect that took out much of the web for several hours.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/ftmYtFv7
We have our fears of AI taking over the world and killing all the humans, which we are still rather far from, however a more urgent worry is the use of AI automomous agents taking the place of hackers themselves. Once such group managed to offload 80% of the technical hacking work to Claude Code.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/PzTM7dZT
Last week we discussed a weird email sent to students, staff, alumni, or basically anyone associated with the University of Pennsylvania. This week some new developments in the case occurred that could leave data at risk, but the attacker's motivations and actions seem odd.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/GDKhPmrE
I learned how to generate censorship bleeps! But also a strange and vulgar email was sent out to alumni, donors, clients, staff, and current students from the University of Pennsylvania warning that a data leak was inevitable. But is there any substance?
Sources: https://pastebin.com/MbJwdrYA
We've talked about North Korean threat actors being hired for jobs in order to steal data, but what about North Korean threat actors hiring people to steal data? Seems backwards, but it's been going on for years and recently teh defense sector has become a target of these attacks.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/yrWK4K20
