On creating a wiper for computers in Iran, they said it was mostly for testing their malware, but also "for the lulz." Some things never change.

🚨NEW🚨 I spoke to TeamPCP, the hackers behind a cybercrime spree that hit major security and AI tools this last week. While they claim to have used AI (yes, Claude) to code some of their malware, they largely relied on an age-old problem that persists: bad security. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Ad tech is surveillance software. Period.

Que Sora, Sora (sorry, an obvious gag but i couldnt resist). www.ft.com/content/5acd...

🚨NEW🚨 Cops identified a suspect behind an anonymous bomb hoax at an Ohio courthouse by using Google cookies. An example of how cops can piggyback on the tracking technologies used by tech giants. Haven't seen this before, but surely used in other cases. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

🚨NEW🚨 Cops identified a suspect behind an anonymous bomb hoax at an Ohio courthouse by using Google cookies. An example of how cops can piggyback on the tracking technologies used by tech giants. Haven't seen this before, but surely used in other cases. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

🚨NEW🚨 Cape, the anti-surveillance mobile network cofounded by ex-Palantir employees, has hit a $900 million valuation. Explosive revenue growth too, from $4.5m in 2024 to $37m in 2025. Still, there are doubters and CEO John Doyle tells me how he responds to them. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

EXCLUSIVE: Millions of 'anonymous' crime tips sent to law enforcement, the military and Crime Stoppers have been exposed by hackers. The data—provided to me & @ddosecrets.org by the hackers—contains 8.3 million highly sensitive records spanning from 1987 to 2025. san.com/cc/millions-...

NEW - Missiles have killed at least two individuals key to Iran's cyber capability, per reports, but the hacks have continued. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

🚨 NEW 🚨 Israeli startup Tenzai let its AI agent (tailored versions of OpenAI and Anthropic models) rip on elite hacking competitions. It was better than 99% of 125,000 participants. Hackers have already had their "singularity moment." www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Huge thank you to all *checks notes* 200,000 of you who subscribed in the last year! Extremely proud of my colleagues and to be part of Team @wired.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

A judge in England tossed out testimony after a witness was being coached on what to say through a pair of smartglasses. When the voice of the coach started coming through the accompanying cellphone, the witness blamed the whole thing on ChatGPT. www.404media.co/witness-caug...

We're about a minute away from capable robot soldiers. At least AI robots are currently shite at tennis, tho. zzk273.github.io/LATENT/

Just Sharon Osbourne saying she loves an AI-generated song by an AI far-right rapper... www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Scoop: Here’s the bonkers story of how a foreign hacker inadvertently (?) broke into an evidence server holding FBI Epstein material in 2023 and then threatened to call in law enforcement when they found it was full of CSAM. www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

All this talk of advanced AI targeting and the U.S. still fired a Tomahawk at an elementary school where an outdoor playground has been visible on Google Maps since 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

'Tis done.

Two reasons I remained unconvinced by AI in journalism: 1. I asked Gemini to review a court filing for me that I wasn't able to ctrl+f for mentions of AI. I asked it to find mentions of AI. The AI couldn't do it and lied about where it was. ctd...

🚨NEW🚨 Cops used an AI-generated teenager to catch pedophiles on Kik Messenger, an app notorious as a hive of predator activity. A rare insight into how police can spin up AI teens for sting operations on social media. But where else are cops using AI personas? www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

“AI has been a boon for child abuse investigators.”

🚨NEW🚨 Cops used an AI-generated teenager to catch pedophiles on Kik Messenger, an app notorious as a hive of predator activity. A rare insight into how police can spin up AI teens for sting operations on social media. But where else are cops using AI personas? www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

Should be the biggest story of this week, maybe of this presidency so far?

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say www.reuters.com/world/middle...

NEW: The FBI said it is investigating a hack on its networks. The breach affected the FBI's systems to manage wiretaps and surveillace requests, according to CNN. techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/f...

Just realised this is a reverse password search! Novel...

Also something I've never seen before: Cloudflare being ordered to "collect all IPs" going through a customer's proxy. In an investigation into the Caffeine Store cybercrime bazaar. Cloudflare has been served with pen register orders many times before, but first time I've seen it in a court doc.

Never seen anything like this before... Mega being asked to try a specific password against "all" accounts. Unclear if this is just a range of accounts of interest or every single Mega account in existence. From a CSAM investigation.

The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

"‘President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth." So the son of God chose the guy who talked about grabbing women by their genitals for this job? Gotta say, weird choice.

NEW - What AI + mass data collection + shady data broker industry looks like for Americans, in light of the Anthropic/OpenAI/Pentagon debacle. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

They'll end up using Grok for mass surveillance on commercial data from shady brokers and it'll go just fine. Just fine.

UPDATE: X has now suspended the Handala group's attack sometime after I alerted the company of its ties to the sanctioned MOIS intelligence agency.

UPDATE: X has now suspended the Handala group's attack sometime after I alerted the company of its ties to the sanctioned MOIS intelligence agency.

Re the blue tick - Iranian intel agency MOIS is under US sanctions and no US company should be selling any services to them whatsoever.

🚨NEW🚨 One of Iran's most notorious hacker crews, linked by Israelis to Tehran's intelligence apparatus, is using Elon Musk's Starlink to stay online. It also has a blue tick account on Elon Musk's X, where it's been advertising its unverified retaliatory hacks. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Wild to see this half a decade after I revealed Intellexa to the world: youtu.be/Tl3mpywMYFA?...

Yes this - fpds.gov was the basis of a lot of investigations me and others have done over may years. The alternatives are shinier but far more convoluted and irritating.

Good thing @ddosecrets.org preserved those records ddosecrets.org/article/epst... See also our collaboration with @jmail.world to make them searchable, including DDoSecrets' leaked archive of Epstein emails ddosecrets.org/article/epst..., which we partnered with @dropsitenews.com on

The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

NEW: SSA has been told to tell ICE the "date and time" when certain people have appointments, likely subjecting those people to ICE enforcement actions when they come in. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, & @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...

I just... can't believe... they wrote that... to their staff?!

Coincidentally, surveillance backlash is my DJ name.

🚨NEW🚨 Epstein could've made $$$ off his investment in a police tech startup then valued at $4.5m. The startup says it never knew of his involvement, concealed by Ehud Barak, former Israel PM. The company is about to sell for Axon for $625 million. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

🚨NEW🚨 Epstein paid tens of thousands to a search engine expert to promote his philanthropy and bury negative news on Google Search about his sex trafficking. That included getting a positive story in Forbes. First insight into how that all happened here. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

Maybe this is also why he went to DEF CON to scout for hacking talent

🚨NEW🚨 Epstein paid tens of thousands to a search engine expert to promote his philanthropy and bury negative news on Google Search about his sex trafficking. That included getting a positive story in Forbes. First insight into how that all happened here. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...