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Zack Whittaker

@zackwhittaker.com
18 posts
2026-02-13
After threatening to ban TP-Link router sales over alleged links to China (which TP-Link denies), the Trump admin has reportedly put that ban plan on hold ahead of a summit with China, suggesting it was political leverage & not about cybersecurity. reuters.com/business/med...  From me in November:
2026-02-13 View on X
Reuters

Sources: the Trump administration has shelved tech security measures against China, including data center equipment curbs, ahead of a Trump-Xi meeting in April

The Trump administration has shelved a number of key tech security measures aimed at Beijing ahead of an April meeting between the two countries' presidents.

2026-02-12
Prosecutors have confirmed for the first time that Peter Williams, who ran L3Harris' Trenchant unit (which makes hacking tools for the U.S. govermment and its allies), sold the company's exploits to a Russian broker that were capable of accessing “millions of computers and devices” around the world.
2026-02-12 View on X
TechCrunch

The US DOJ says Peter Williams, the former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker

The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers and people worldwide …

2026-01-07
NEW, by me: Bryan Fleming, the Michigan-based founder of spyware maker pcTattletale, pleaded guilty in federal court to hacking & advertising surveillance software Tuesday.  —  ICE/HSI brought the case.  It's the DOJ's first federal successful prosecution of a stalkerware operator in over a decade.
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 …

2025-11-27
Brian Krebs identified the real-world identity of Rey, a key administrator of Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, a hacking group blamed for dozens of high profile hacks.  —  The hacker, identified as a Jordanian teenager, agreed to be interviewed after Krebs tracked him down and contacted his father.
2025-11-27 View on X
Krebs on Security

A profile of “Rey”, the admin of cybercriminal group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, a 15-year-old from Amman, Jordan who cooperated with European police since June

A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” has dominated headlines this year …

2025-10-03
NEW: A prolific English-speaking hacking and extortion group has published a data leak site claiming the theft of 1 billion records from companies who store their customer data in Salesforce databases.  —  The hackers claim to have stolen data Qantas, Stellantis, FedEx, Hulu, and others.
2025-10-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web that threatens to release ~1B records allegedly stolen from dozens of companies' Salesforce-hosted databases

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker  —  A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website …

2025-10-02
More via @carlypage.bsky.social: Hackers claim to have stolen 28,000 internal repos from Red Hat, including customer engagement reports, which “contain architecture diagrams, configuration details, authentication tokens, and network maps — effectively a blueprint of a customer's IT environment.”
2025-10-02 View on X
BleepingComputer

Extortion group Crimson Collective claims it breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, stealing nearly 570GB from 28K projects; Red Hat confirms a breach

An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories …

2025-09-26
ICYMI: A viral app called Neon, which pays you to record your phone calls so your audio can be used to train AI, has gone offline after I discovered a security lapse that allowed any user to access the phone numbers, call recordings, and call transcriptions of any other user.
2025-09-26 View on X
TechCrunch

Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts

A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies …

2025-07-26
NEW, by me: Hackers breached U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life in July and stole the “majority” of its customers' personal information.  The company confirmed the breach to TechCrunch, but wouldn't provide an accurate number of affected customers.  Its parent company, Allianz, has 125 million members.
2025-07-26 View on X
TechCrunch

US insurance giant Allianz Life says hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, staffers, and employees, in a mid-July breach

U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the …

2025-06-19
New: Iran's largest crypto exchange Nobitex said it was hacked and funds drained.  —  Pro-Israel hacking group Predatory Sparrow claimed responsibility for the hack, which saw the group steal and destroy some $90 million in crypto.  A day earlier, the group claimed it hacked a major Iranian bank.
2025-06-19 View on X
TechCrunch

Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, says it was hacked, and pro-Israel group Predatory Sparrow takes credit; Elliptic: the hackers stole and “burned” $90M+

Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, said Wednesday that it was hacked and funds have been drained from its hot wallet.

2025-05-21
After a Microsoft Build talk was disrupted by protesters, Microsoft's head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, “accidentally switched to Microsoft Teams while sharing her screen, revealing confidential internal messages about Walmart's upcoming use of Microsoft's Entra and AI gateway services.”  —  Whoops.
2025-05-21 View on X
The Verge

After a protest at Build 2025, Microsoft's head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's planned AI tools use

Internal messages were displayed after two former Microsoft employees disrupted a Build session.

2025-05-16
More: Coinbase CEO says the hacker demanded $20 million in a ransom payment not to publish the stolen data.  —  A Coinbase spokesperson tells me that less than 1% of its monthly customers are affected.  Per its latest figures out in March 2025, that's still around ~100k people who may be affected.
2025-05-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: Coinbase's hackers had bribed enough customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to customer info in the past five months

On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …

BREAKING: Coinbase says it was breached, and customers' personal information stolen.  —  The crypto giant said the hacker was “paying multiple contractors or employees working in support roles,” and contacted Coinbase with a ransom demand this week with stolen data, which Coinbase says is “credible.”
2025-05-16 View on X
Reuters

Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom

and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Coul...

More: Coinbase CEO says the hacker demanded $20 million in a ransom payment not to publish the stolen data.  —  A Coinbase spokesperson tells me that less than 1% of its monthly customers are affected.  Per its latest figures out in March 2025, that's still around ~100k people who may be affected.
2025-05-16 View on X
Reuters

Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom

and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Coul...

BREAKING: Coinbase says it was breached, and customers' personal information stolen.  —  The crypto giant said the hacker was “paying multiple contractors or employees working in support roles,” and contacted Coinbase with a ransom demand this week with stolen data, which Coinbase says is “credible.”
2025-05-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: Coinbase's hackers had bribed enough customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to customer info in the past five months

On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …

2025-05-15
More: Coinbase CEO says the hacker demanded $20 million in a ransom payment not to publish the stolen data.  —  A Coinbase spokesperson tells me that less than 1% of its monthly customers are affected.  Per its latest figures out in March 2025, that's still around ~100k people who may be affected.
2025-05-15 View on X
Reuters

Coinbase says hackers accessed a “small subset” of users' data, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M to $400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom

Coinbase (COIN.O) forecast a hit between $180 million and $400 million from a cyber attack that breached account data of a …

BREAKING: Coinbase says it was breached, and customers' personal information stolen.  —  The crypto giant said the hacker was “paying multiple contractors or employees working in support roles,” and contacted Coinbase with a ransom demand this week with stolen data, which Coinbase says is “credible.”
2025-05-15 View on X
Reuters

Coinbase says hackers accessed a “small subset” of users' data, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M to $400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom

Coinbase (COIN.O) forecast a hit between $180 million and $400 million from a cyber attack that breached account data of a …

2025-05-01
I genuinely don't know who needs to hear this — everyone, maybe? — but if a billionaire (or anyone, for that matter) offers to put your iris scans on the blockchain, run as fast and as far as you can.  —  This man shouldn't be let anywhere near an internet connection, let alone people's biometric data.
2025-05-01 View on X
The Verge

Tools for Humanity launches Worldcoin in most of the US, including via crypto exchanges like Coinbase, and debuts a portable “orb mini” device for iris scanning

After scanning millions of eyes around the world, Tools for Humanity is bringing Worldcoin to the United States.

2025-04-29
Electronic Frontier Foundation and dozens of leading cyber and election security experts have signed an open letter saying they “unequivocally condemn” the Trump order targeting former CISA director Chris Krebs, and demand the order is rescinded.
2025-04-29 View on X
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its “political retribution” investigation into ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs

“An independent infosec community is fundamental to protecting our democracy, and to the profession itself.”  —  www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/chris- k... Zack Whittaker / @zackwh...