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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

@lorenzofb
365 posts
2026-02-25
This is the first time the U.S. government alleges that the zero-days stolen by Williams ended up somewhere beyond Operation Zero, potentially a foreign intelligence agency.  —  Treasury also said Operation Zero worked with a Trickbot ransomware member, who also got sanctioned.
2026-02-25 View on X
TechCrunch

The US Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero, its founder Sergey Zelenyuk, and others for acquiring and reselling stolen US defense exploits

The U.S. government announced on Tuesday sanctions against two companies that acquire and resell zero-day exploits …

This is the first time the U.S. government alleges that the zero-days stolen by Williams ended up somewhere beyond Operation Zero, potentially a foreign intelligence agency.  —  Treasury also said Operation Zero worked with a Trickbot ransomware member, who also got sanctioned.
2026-02-25 View on X
CyberScoop

A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris executive Peter Williams to 7+ years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2025 to theft of trade secrets and selling exploits

Additionally, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the Russian zero-day brokerage that Peter Williams sold the exploits to.  —  Learn more.

2026-02-24
NEW: The U.S. government is sanctioning Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero and its founder, alleging it acquired stolen hacking tools from U.S. defense contractor L3Harris Trenchant.  —  The U.S. said former Trenchant boss Peter Williams stole and sold these exploits to Operation Zero.
2026-02-24 View on X
TechCrunch

The US Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero, its founder Sergey Zelenyuk, and others for acquiring and reselling stolen US defense exploits

The U.S. government announced on Tuesday sanctions against two companies that acquire and resell zero-day exploits …

2026-02-15
NEW: Fintech lending giant Figure confirmed hackers stole “a limited number of files” after an employee was socially engineered.  —  The notorious hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the hack in a post on its dark web leak site, saying the company did not pay a ransom.
2026-02-15 View on X
TechCrunch

Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom

2026-02-14
NEW: Fintech lending giant Figure confirmed hackers stole “a limited number of files” after an employee was socially engineered.  —  The notorious hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the hack in a post on its dark web leak site, saying the company did not pay a ransom.
2026-02-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom

Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending company, confirmed it experienced a data breach.  —  On Friday, Figure spokesperson …

2026-02-13
NEW: Fintech lending giant Figure confirmed hackers stole “a limited number of files” after an employee was socially engineered.  —  The notorious hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the hack in a post on its dark web leak site, saying the company did not pay a ransom.
2026-02-13 View on X
TechCrunch

Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom

Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending company, confirmed it experienced a data breach.  —  On Friday, Figure spokesperson …

2026-01-28
NEW: After Apple launched Lockdown Mode years ago, and Google released its own special security feature for Android last year, WhatsApp now offers a new mode for users at high risk of being targeted with spyware.  —  It's called Strict Account Settings and enables certain restrictions to protect users.
2026-01-28 View on X
Reuters

WhatsApp launches Strict Account Settings, a high-security mode to protect high-risk users like journalists and public figures from sophisticated cyberattacks

Meta's WhatsApp messaging service is offering users an advanced security mode, joining a growing number of U.S. tech firms …

2026-01-27
NEW: After Apple launched Lockdown Mode years ago, and Google released its own special security feature for Android last year, WhatsApp now offers a new mode for users at high risk of being targeted with spyware.  —  It's called Strict Account Settings and enables certain restrictions to protect users.
2026-01-27 View on X
Reuters

WhatsApp launches Strict Account Settings, a high-security mode to protect high-risk users like journalists and public figures from sophisticated cyberattacks

Meta's WhatsApp messaging service is offering users an advanced security mode, joining a growing number of U.S. tech firms …

2026-01-09
NEW: The internet in Iran is nearly completely shut down, according to internet monitoring firms.  —  The blackout comes in the midst of countrywide protests that have lasted for days after spikes in prices and shortages of basic goods.  The govenrment has responded with a violent crackdown.
2026-01-09 View on X
The National

NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply

Cloudflare Radar says country's IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply as protests spread across 100 cities

2026-01-07
This could set a precedent for more prosecutions of stalkerware makers.  Unfortunately the problem is that many of these companies are run from outside of the United States.  Also the key, I think, is to show that they are specifically marketing their products to spy on adults without their consent. …
2026-01-07 View on X
TechCrunch

In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10+ years, pcTattletale's founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses

The founder of a U.S.-based spyware company, whose surveillance products allowed customers to spy on the phones and computers …

2025-12-28
NEW: Meet the folks at AccessNow's Digital Security Helpline, who have been investigating government spyware for more than a decade, helping journalists and dissidents all over the world.  —  I spoke to Hassen Selmi, who heads the incident response team, to learn how his team fights spyware abuses.
2025-12-28 View on X
TechCrunch

A profile of the Digital Security Helpline, run by Access Now, which gives 24/7 help to reporters and others who suspect they are victims of government spyware

For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been targeted and hacked by governments all over the world. LinkedIn: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai . ...

2025-11-22
NEW: Google says the new wave of supply chain attacks by Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters impacted more than 200 companies' Salesforce-stored data.  —  Hackers said they breached CrowdStrike, Linkedin, Malwarebytes, Verizon etc.  —  Malwarebytes said is investigating.  CrowdStrike said company is “not affected.”
2025-11-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform

Google has confirmed that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack.

2025-10-18
The judge reduced the damages NSO has to pay to WhatsApp from $167 million down to $4 million.  [embedded post]
2025-10-18 View on X
Courthouse News Service

A US judge bars NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users and cuts the ~$168M damages verdict awarded to Meta by a jury in May to $4M, ruling it was excessive

Meta previously won $168 million in damages over claims spyware compromised WhatsApp users, but a judge reduced the damages down to $4 million.

2025-09-30
One step closer to AGI.  Amazing.  [embedded post]
2025-09-30 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants

the chatbot will start letting its 700,000,000 users shop directly from their chats Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Make Purchases Without Leaving the App Nishit Singh ...

2025-08-21
NEW: The two Harvard students who doxed random people with Meta Ray-Ban glasses are launching “always-on” AI-powered smart glasses that listen, record, and transcribe, everything happening around them.  —  The glasses don't have an indicator that shows people around them that they are being recorded.
2025-08-21 View on X
TechCrunch

Halo, a startup founded by two former Harvard students who built a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, introduces “always-on” AI glasses for $249

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Rebecca Bellan  —  Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” …

2025-07-09
NEW: We confirmed that Activision took a version of Call of Duty: WWII offline because hackers were taking over players' PCs.  —  Sources tell us that the issue was a bug that had been patched in other versions of the game, but not on the one for Microsoft Store and Game Pass, which are still offline.
2025-07-09 View on X
TechCrunch

Source: Activision took down Call of Duty: WWII after hackers exploited a flaw in a specific PC version, which led to some players having their computers hacked

Campaign Mode: Incident Commander  —  Multiplayer Mode: Everyone's On Call  —  DLC: Zero-Day at Dawn [embedded post] Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NEW: We confirmed ...

2025-06-13
As always, worth reading Citizen Lab's whole report here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...
2025-06-13 View on X
TechCrunch

A Citizen Lab report finds that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Paragon spyware; Apple fixed the zero-day used in the spyware in February

Act Now To Prevent Attacks Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Apple Confirms iPhone Flaw Was Used to Spy on Journalists Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity : European Journalists Target...

2025-06-05
NEW: Forensic tool maker Cellebrite says it's acquired startup Corellium for ~$200 million.  —  Cellebrite, which relies on finding zero-days to unlock and extract data from phones, said Corellium's technology will help with “accelerated identification of mobile vulnerabilities and exploits.”
2025-06-05 View on X
Forbes

Cellebrite acquires Florida-based Corellium, which makes phone virtualization tools, for $170M; founder Chris Wade, who Trump pardoned in 2020, will stay as CTO

Corellium founder and CEO Chris Wade is selling his startup to Cellebrite, law enforcement's favorite cellphone forensics business.

2025-05-14
NEW: Last week, WhatsApp won a huge court battle against spyware maker NSO, which now has to pay $167,000,000 in damages to the tech giant.  —  As part of the lawsuit and trial, a lot of details have come out about NSO and the cyberattack underpinning the lawsuit.
2025-05-14 View on X
TechCrunch

WhatsApp v. NSO Group: NSO kept targeting WhatsApp users even after Meta sued, NSO spent $59M on R&D in 2024, and its customers pay $3M to $30M to use Pegasus

As part of the lawsuit and trial, a lot of details have come out about NSO and the cyberattack underpinning the lawsuit. X: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : “We are str...

“We are struggling to keep our head above water,” NSO's CEO Yaron Shohat said during testimony. Instead, they have to pay $167 million. https://techcrunch.com/...
2025-05-14 View on X
TechCrunch

WhatsApp v. NSO Group: NSO kept targeting WhatsApp users even after Meta sued, NSO spent $59M on R&D in 2024, and its customers pay $3M to $30M to use Pegasus

As part of the lawsuit and trial, a lot of details have come out about NSO and the cyberattack underpinning the lawsuit. X: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : “We are str...