Microsoft is probing whether a MAPP leak let Chinese hackers exploit a SharePoint vuln pre-patch. In this new piece for Natto, @dakotaindc.bsky.social, @meidanowski.bsky.social & I dig into: 🏛️ China's vuln reporting rules 📉 Which firms joined/left MAPP since 2018 ⚠️ The risks today’s members pose

American officials say new economic model for offence has fuelled spying attacks by PRC government agencies that have more than doubled. "We are in China’s golden age of hacking,” said @dakotaindc.bsky.social :

Should we proactively make human-imitation robotic appearances illegal?

I’m logging on from vacation in Tokyo to share this banger of a report comparing the cyber offensive acquisition strategies of China and the US. www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

50+ hours without power. Highs in the 90s. 😭

I learned the true meaning of a zephyr as I lie awake last night waiting for one to sneak in through my window. We’re at 28 hours without power and approaching tomorrow’s high of 95 with dread.

June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.

"China is conducting polygraphs on its agents [from Russia] as soon as they return home, tightening scrutiny of the 20,000 Russian students in China and trying to recruit Russians with Chinese spouses as potential spies, the document says." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...

Hefty new drop w/ @milenkowski.bsky.social China-nexus Threat Actors Hammer At the Doors of Top Tier Targets www.sentinelone.com/labs/follow-...

The threat actor taxonomy unification announcement is a joke on anyone tracking the actual entities behind APT designations. Not only do many separate entities often constitute a single APT, but these entities change their TTPs overtime in ways that may align them to other, already established APTs

This report has me thinking a couple of things. 1) We should anticipate more universities joining Qingyuan Polytechnic in supporting the CNNVD. As the chart below from the 2022 CNITSEC report (former MSS 13th Bureau) makes clear, the plurality of Chinese vuln talent is employed by higher-ed.

All orgs under Chinese Academy of Sciences web.archive.org/web/20250528... 中国科学院办公厅 中国科学院沈阳分院 中国科学院长春分院 中国科学院上海分院 中国科学院南京分院 中国科学院武汉分院 中国科学院广州分院 中国科学院成都分院 中国科学院昆明分院 中国科学院西安分院 中国科学院兰州分院 中国科学院新疆分院 中国科学院院机关 中国科学院上海分院机关 中国科学院南京分院机关 中国科学院西安分院机关 中国科学院新疆分院机关 中国科学院沈阳分院机关 中国科学院广州分院机关 中国科学院武汉分院机关

The incompetence and incoherence of the US strategy with the UAE is staggering apnews.com/article/inte...

NEW: @ajvicens.bsky.social and I went through some of the leaked TeleMessage documents collected by @ddosecrets.com. Whoever hacked the service had access to a broad cross-section of US government communications. www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...

Deterrence is a state of mind

Just a gut check on how this would have landed in 2004. www.youtube.com/watch?v=trsF...

Stanford review published a great piece of journalism on the CCP's on-campus activities. stanfordreview.org/investigatio...

📆 Just A Sec is almost here. In the first-ever episode of our new livestream series, @jags.bsky.social, @stonepwn3000.bsky.social, Drea London-Petter, and @dakotaindc.bsky.social discuss the hidden forces shaping our digital world.

An absolute blast to participate in and so happy with how this turned out!

Thank you @dakotaindc.bsky.social Winnona DeSombre, @dustinchilds.bsky.social, Greg Austin, for your time and wisdom in this @bloomberglp.bsky.social production on the breadth of China's cyber army. An idea originated the brilliant Robin Fall and Olivia Yasukawa. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

There's nothing we won't destroy to make number go up

Federal research leaders suggested Tuesday that AI could lead industries to “nearly eliminate software vulnerabilities” in critical infrastructure. via @gregotto.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/darpa-ai-gra...

The report is allegedly titled "Investigation Report on the Incident of US Intelligence Agencies Using Cyberspace to Attack China's Large Commercial Cryptographic Product Providers" (美情报机构利用网络 攻击中国大型商用密码产品提供商事件调查报告)

It was inevitable

LABS again breaking sector taboos discussing defending ourselves from attackers. Great piece www.sentinelone.com/labs/top-tie...

Banger of a report from @milenkowski.bsky.social, Jiro Minier, @julianferdinand.bsky.social, @maxwsmeets.bsky.social, and @tgrossman.bsky.social virtual-routes.org/pharos-repor...

Current vibes

The sun is setting as short men cast long shadows.

From @reuters.com: Three more federal prosecutors who worked on the now-torpedoed corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams have quit "after they said the Justice Department wrongfully pressured them to admit to wrongdoing." www.reuters.com/world/us/thr...

Updated my iPhone (18.4.1) with the most recent update and no longer have cell service 😬

My brother in christ, they are selling drugs into this country to fund their diplomatic efforts abroad while we are gutting our government's diplomatic capacity. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

China hated this office. This is a free gift to the PRC. What are we receiving in return?

Hardest bumper sticker I’ve seen to date

Live shot of China picking “alleged operator names” knowing no one in the US will confirm or deny

They're trying to build a prison

NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

My question is did state media add mention of US universities in response to the paper @euben.bsky.social and I wrote last year which included circumstantial evidence of hacks by NWPU? www.sentinelone.com/labs/labscon...

Happy PRC National Security Education Day! China is celebrating with more BS propaganda, again. Last year, China claimed that Volt Typhoon was a US operation. What do they say this year?

Iran, is that you, dear?

Why do grocery stores only sell low-fat buttermilk? What’s the point of low-fat buttermilk? Make it make sense

The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre and international cybersecurity & intelligence agencies on Wednesday said hackers are deploying two forms of previously identified #spyware to snoop on #Uyghur, #Tibetan and Taiwanese individuals & civil society organizations. therecord.media/ncsc-shares-...

Constant purging. “President Xi Jinping has purged the number-two general in the People’s Liberation Army, in the most dramatic act of his military anti-corruption campaign and first firing of a general in that role in six decades.” www.ft.com/content/8226...

It's ya boy 👇

Glad I sold my Apple puts 😭

Your Outie...

Bridge Colby & the Quincy appointees right now:

Come make corporate wonder if this much free speech is a good thing!