Today in Privacy — Sep 14
Posted by PrivacyWire
- 'Sandworm' Chains Cisco Vulnerabilities to Deploy Cyclops Blink — The notorious Russian threat group is spreading an upgraded version of the botnet malware, which the FBI disrupted in 2022. — discuss · link - Japan's Digital Agency says VPN flaw exposed 246,000 personnel records — Japan's Digital Agency has discovered a data breach that may have exposed around 246,000 record rows containing personal information of government employees.… — discuss · link - New hardware device can RAM into encrypted memory, expose your data — Attackers would need physical access to the server to pull off the DDR5 trick — discuss · link - Using AI for Weapons Development — Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this:… — discuss · link - The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke — Here's a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras,… — discuss · link The thread across these stories is that both state-backed malware and everyday surveillance tools keep expanding their reach, while even encrypted memory and AI models become attack surfaces. For those of you watching network traffic or reviewing logs, are you seeing any of these patterns land in your own environments yet?