oh sure, why not www.scworld.com/brief/claude...

pretty notable post-mortem from the Axios maintainer who says hackers tricked him via a bespoke Slack channel, fake microsoft team calls and initial communications that imitated the founder of a legit company

weird week to be an Axios cybersecurity reporter :) www.axios.com/2026/03/31/n...

Kash Patel emails (1.1 GB) The first tranche of emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence. ddosecrets.org/article/kash... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

A group linked to Iranian intelligence services claims it hacked FBI Director Kash Patel's emails, documents and potentially classified files. FBI hasn't commented yet, but a DOJ source confirmed to Reuters that Patel's inbox was breached. more @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/03/27/f...

FBI says it took down four domains linked to Iranian cyber operations, including two linked to pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala. Last week, Handala claimed credit for a cyberattack on U.S. medical tech giant Stryker. more on @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/03/20/i...

🚨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...

new NSA/cyber command leader just dropped www.axios.com/2026/03/10/n...

SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said. The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.

honestly it's on me for not thinking that this could drop on a random friday afternoon after months of anticipation -- my b www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

OpenAI is starting to roll out Codex Security today, entering the growing market of frontier AI labs offering code security agents. The last time an AI co. introduced a similar offering, the news rattled share prices for major cyber companies for several days. www.axios.com/2026/03/06/o...

Gen. Nakasone, former head of the NSA & an OpenAI board member, called out the Pentagon's move to designate Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" at a conference in Sausalito last night. "This is not a good space for our nation." more @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/03/03/n...

Scoop: CISA CIO Bob Costello is being pushed out, per three people familiar with the matter, ending a standoff between Costello and CISA's beleaguered acting director, who tried and failed to get him reassigned last month. Two sources said Costello is being reassigned to FEMA.

New w @janetimm.bsky.social: In the feds' first call with states since gutting CISA's election programs, they promised no ICE at polling places, but weirdly refused to reaffirm states run elections, per people on the call.

the future looks more like "war games" than "terminator," ex. No. 323389 www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

I spent the last few weeks asking former senior gov't officials & leading cyber experts the same question: What will the major AI-powered cyberattack look like? Attacks on utilities. Agents going rogue. Humans overly trusting AI systems. It's all on the table: www.axios.com/2026/02/24/c...

i had a lot of feelings about the (sorry not sorry, overreaction!) of the markets on cyber stocks after Anthropic's code security tool release! maybe i'm wrong in the long term, but idk, a lot of folks seem to share my POV: www.axios.com/2026/02/23/c...

NEW –> DEF CON has banned Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman after DOJ files released in January revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to the popular hacker conference: www.nextgov.com/people/2026/...

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

NEW: The government's nutrition website directs users to Grok. After I asked about it, the site lost the name drop shown below, but users are still sent to Grok. This follows uproar over Grok's creation of millions of sexualized deepfakes of women and children. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Anthropic's new Opus 4.6 model has already proven it's a pro at finding zero-days. In early testing, the model found more than 500 security flaws in open-source software. Many of those were found after traditional security tools failed. my exclusive for @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/02/05/a...

a new threat actor tied to an Asian gov't (👀) has hacked at least 70 orgs across 37 countries in the last year, according to Palo Alto Networks. victims include Brazil's Ministry of Mines & Energy, the Czech Republic's parliament and an Indonesian gov't official. www.axios.com/2026/02/05/c...

"'If somebody said it's business as usual [with federal election security support], he's full of s—t and lying,' [Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes] said. 'That's not true.'" cyberscoop.com/cisa-electio...

a new open-source AI agent has gone viral across tech spaces. it requires persistent access to devices, can read & write files, and is easily misconfigured when set up. it’s a security nightmare & we’re only at the beginning of AI agent adoption 🫠 www.axios.com/2026/01/29/m...

New, by me: Under Armour says it’s aware of data breach claims after 72M customer records were posted online. A spox. told me a "small percentage" of customers had sensitive information compromised but wouldn't say what it considers "sensitive," nor provide an accurate figure of affected customers.

Oakland Animal Services has been absolutely slammed this month and they are over capacity. There are 4 dogs with a Monday euthanasia date right now. I’m picking one up for foster & hopefully you can too! Go grab one of these babies!

From Flock camera trackers to ICE leaks, protesters are now embracing hacktivism in their work against the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts. my latest on @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/01/20/i...

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

New: DOGE staff cuts gutted the Pentagon's IT office so hard it didn't have enough personnel to buy software it needed to operate theintercept.com/2026/01/19/d...

"Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms." wapo.st/3LWMYnX

one month after a cyberattack, Venezuela's state-owned oil company is operating via phone calls, WhatsApp messages and handwritten reports www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Daily Beast reports that a DHS whistleblower has leaked the personal details of around 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees. The data is said to include about 1,800 on-the-ground agents and 150 supervisors.

I'm looking for anyone that's work at a company that's either missed payroll -- or been late with paychecks. I want to hear what that's like and how that affected you. It's for a story I'm working on. [email protected]. You can also just DM me here or find me on Signal EmilyRPeck.71

update: I’m being told this is the witness list for next week— Logan Graham, Anthropic’s frontier red team lead Royal Hansen, Google vice president of security & privacy   Eddy Zervigon, Quantum Xchange CEO Michael Coates, Seven Hill Ventures

Researchers have found two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components while attempting to exploit the patches last week. These are new issues, separate from the critical CVE last week. The patch for React2Shell remains effective for the Remote Code Execution exploit.

OMG! It’s been too long since we had a good mobile ransomware sighting!

one of the wildest stories i've seen in a minute: twin brothers who previously pled guilty to hacking the State Department while gov't contractors... got new jobs as gov't contractors.... then allegedly deleted a bunch of gov't data... and were just arrested again. www.axios.com/2025/12/03/v...

Europol has seized the domain of the Cryptomixer cryptocurrency mixing service. The site was allegedly responsible for helping criminal groups launder funds. Officials also seized €25 million worth of assets. www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

publishing this at 8:30pmPST the night before thanksgiving was a choice openai.com/index/mixpan...

New from me: House lawmakers have called on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify next month on how Chinese hackers used Claude Code to automate most of a wide-reaching cyberespionage campaign. More on @axios.com: www.axios.com/2025/11/26/a...

NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org

cloudflare says today's outage was due to just one oversized file www.axios.com/2025/11/18/c...

Scoop: CISA plans to embark on a hiring spree and change some workforce policies in an effort to rebuild its depleted ranks ahead of a possible conflict with China, according to a memo from its acting director that I obtained. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-hi...

Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing." “Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.

As federal election security support shrinks, Pam Smith warns smaller offices may be left “flying blind.” Still, she reminds us: “We ran elections before there was critical infrastructure support, and we'll have elections again, even without federal support.” @samsabin.bsky.social bit.ly/4hM06Ib

apparently the password for the Louvre's video surveillance system was just.... "Louvre" 🫠 www.pcworld.com/article/2961...

OpenAI is rolling out a new security agent, built on GPT-5, in private beta. The agent is designed continuously scan source code, find & validate bugs and propose patches. More on @axios.com: www.axios.com/2025/10/30/o...

apparently it’s #nationalblackcatday so here’s the sweetest lil hunter there is 🥰🙏🏻

F5 — the networking security company that disclosed a nation-state cyberattack this month — just warned on an earnings call that their short-term revenue will likely take a hit as customers slow buying decisions as they patch vulnerable devices. more for @axios.com: www.axios.com/2025/10/27/f...

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...