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Kim Zetter

@kimzetter
388 posts
2026-04-17
AI labs are buying internal communications of defunct startups to train their agents. Emails, Slack archives, etc. Personally identifiable info is removed by data resellers. But how would you feel knowing your former board/CEO is selling your comms to recover losses/pay debts?
2026-04-17 View on X
Forbes

AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces

Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data.

2026-04-13
So much breathless hyperbole this week about Anthropic's Mythos, no doubt ignited by genius way the company marketed it with elite access and bold unproven claims. @lilyhnewman does good job examining the hype and where it might also prove to be true https://www.wired.com/...
2026-04-13 View on X
Don't Worry About the Vase

A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI

Anthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon.

So much breathless hyperbole this week about Anthropic's Mythos, no doubt ignited by genius way the company marketed it with elite access and bold unproven claims. @lilyhnewman does good job examining the hype and where it might also prove to be true https://www.wired.com/...
2026-04-13 View on X
AI Security Institute

Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025

The AI Security Institute (AISI) conducted evaluations of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview (announced on 7th April) to assess its cybersecurity capabilities.

2026-04-12
So much breathless hyperbole this week about Anthropic's Mythos, no doubt ignited by genius way the company marketed it with elite access and bold unproven claims. @lilyhnewman does good job examining the hype and where it might also prove to be true https://www.wired.com/...
2026-04-12 View on X
Don't Worry About the Vase

A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI

Anthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon.

2026-03-17
Gamblers on Polymarket threatened Israeli journalist if he didn't change a report about a missile that bypassed interceptors and struck an open area outside Jerusalem.  Also, an Israeli reservist and civilian were indicted for using classified info to make bets before Israel bombed Iran last June
2026-03-17 View on X
The Times of Israel

A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers who would win a Polymarket bet if he changed his report on an Iranian missile's impact in Israel

2026-03-12
The hackers say they targeted Stryker in retaliation for US bombing of all-girls school in Iran. They say they have wiped more that 200,000 Stryker systems, servers, and mobile devices and stole 50 terabytes of critical data, forcing Stryker offices in 79 countries to shut down
2026-03-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US medtech giant Stryker confirms a global outage due to a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran

The U.S. medtech company experiences a global outage, with some staff devices remotely wiped  —  Medical technology giant Stryker …

US medical device maker Stryker hit with cyberattack from Iranian hacktivists who remotely wiped employee devices. “many employees have had their device data wiped and cannot access their accounts” Stryker makes surgical/imaging equipment, defibrillators https://www.corkbeo.ie/...
2026-03-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US medtech giant Stryker confirms a global outage due to a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran

The U.S. medtech company experiences a global outage, with some staff devices remotely wiped  —  Medical technology giant Stryker …

2026-03-11
The hackers say they targeted Stryker in retaliation for US bombing of all-girls school in Iran. They say they have wiped more that 200,000 Stryker systems, servers, and mobile devices and stole 50 terabytes of critical data, forcing Stryker offices in 79 countries to shut down
2026-03-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US medtech giant Stryker suffers a global outage after a cyberattack; staff and contractors say an Iran-linked hacking group's logo appeared on login pages

Global outage affects U.S. medtech company; some staff devices remotely wiped  —  Medical technology giant Stryker is experiencing …

US medical device maker Stryker hit with cyberattack from Iranian hacktivists who remotely wiped employee devices. “many employees have had their device data wiped and cannot access their accounts” Stryker makes surgical/imaging equipment, defibrillators https://www.corkbeo.ie/...
2026-03-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US medtech giant Stryker suffers a global outage after a cyberattack; staff and contractors say an Iran-linked hacking group's logo appeared on login pages

Global outage affects U.S. medtech company; some staff devices remotely wiped  —  Medical technology giant Stryker is experiencing …

2026-03-03
Awesome work to identify company in China that purchased H200 chips through smugglers
2026-03-03 View on X
The Wire China

A look at the US DOJ's December 2025 indictment that alleged a smuggling ring illegally exported or tried to export $160M+ in advanced Nvidia AI chips to China

When President Donald Trump announced last December that Washington would let Nvidia sell its advanced H200 chips to China …

2025-11-24
We need a CRS or GAO report that does a deep-dive into what money DOGE saved vs. what money it just shuffled to Trump/Musk interests and pet projects, and what damage DOGE has done across government (temporarily and long-term)  —  www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
2025-11-24 View on X
Reuters

OPM Director Scott Kupor earlier this month said DOGE “doesn't exist” and OPM took over many of its functions, eight months before DOGE was set to close

Good morning.  I've been thinking a lot about how a fleet … Nicholas Ballasy / Just The News : DOGE officially dissolved, OPM says NDTV Profit : Trump's Government Efficiency Depar...

2025-10-11
Apple announces new payouts for certain types of bugs - company will pay up to $2 million for anyone disclosing a chain of bugs that could be abused for spyware like Pegasus, as well as bonus awards for exploits that can bypass Lockdown Mode or are found while Apple software is still in beta testing
2025-10-11 View on X
Wired

Apple announces a “major evolution” of the Apple Security Bounty program, doubling its top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware

$2M Top Payout Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Apple Doubles Security Bounty Rewards to $2 Million Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Apple now offers $2 million for zero-click RC...

2025-10-10
Apple announces new payouts for certain types of bugs - company will pay up to $2 million for anyone disclosing a chain of bugs that could be abused for spyware like Pegasus, as well as bonus awards for exploits that can bypass Lockdown Mode or are found while Apple software is still in beta testing
2025-10-10 View on X
Wired

Apple announces a “major evolution” of the Apple Security Bounty program, doubling its top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware

With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses …

2025-09-24
This is best story by far about the SIM farm uncovered in New York by Secret Service.  The intent of the farm is not, as suggested by other stories, to disrupt Secret Service protection of dignitaries attending the UN or taking out mobile service for all NY but about managing criminal enterprises
2025-09-24 View on X
Bloomberg

The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly

NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom net...

2025-08-21
US border agents searched 14,899 electronic devices at US borders between April-June — includes phones/computers/cameras/other electronics.  Last year they searched 46,362 devices total.  Basic search means scrolling through phone; advanced search involves extracting reams of data with forensic tools
2025-08-21 View on X
Wired

CBP data: between April and June 2025, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, up from a record 12,766+ between January and March 2022

Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike …

2025-07-20
How did China's top APT hackers come to be? Many were early “Honkers” - patriotic hackers in late 90s who launched low-skill cyberattacks against nations deemed disrespectful to China. But once Honkers developed their skills, PLA/MSS recruited them. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-07-20 View on X
Wired

How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus

A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus. Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com . Mastodon: @kimz...

2025-07-15
Marko Elez, the 25-yr-old DOGE worker who has been granted access to sensitive databases at Depts of Treasury/Justice/Homeland Security, inadvertently published a private key that let anyone interact directly with more than 4 dozen large language models developed by Musk's company xAI
2025-07-15 View on X
Krebs on Security

Researcher: a DOGE employee inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52+ LLMs, like a Grok version from July 9

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access …

2025-06-03
This is embarrassing for an industry that's more than a decade old.  “When the US gov issued a report about hacking attempts against the 2016 election...it [listed] 48 separate nicknames [for] Russian hacking groups...including ‘Sofacy,’ ‘Pawn Storm,’ ‘CHOPSTICK,’ ‘Tsar Team,’ and ‘OnionDuke’”
2025-06-03 View on X
Reuters

Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks plan to create a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease unofficial alias confusion

Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto (PANW.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary …

2025-05-21
Two brothers previously convicted of hacking - including installing a backdoor on a State Dept system while working for contractor - were hired after prison by software firm that processes gov records.  In their new job they destroyed 30 databases and wiped 1,800+ files including IRS and GSA data...
2025-05-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources and docs: a “major lapse” at Thoma Bravo's Opexus, which helps US agencies manage investigations and FOIA, let two convicted hackers delete databases

Failures in cybersecurity practices at a software company that helps federal agencies manage investigations … Bluesky: @kimzetter Bluesky: Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : Two brothers pr...

2025-04-15
Following long practice of US gov indicting Chinese/Russian state hackers for breaching US systems, China has named and issued warrants for 3 NSA workers it says were behind hacks of China systems during Asian Winter Games.  Also says University of California and Virginia Tech participated in attacks
2025-04-15 View on X
Reuters

Chinese state media: police in Harbin accuse the NSA of launching “advanced” cyberattacks during the Asian Winter Games in February 2025 and name three agents

Chinese police in the northeastern city of Harbin have accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) …