I learned how to generate censorship bleeps! But also a strange and vulgar email was sent out to alumni, donors, clients, staff, and current students from the University of Pennsylvania warning that a data leak was inevitable. But is there any substance?

Sources: https://pastebin.com/MbJwdrYA

We've talked about North Korean threat actors being hired for jobs in order to steal data, but what about North Korean threat actors hiring people to steal data? Seems backwards, but it's been going on for years and recently teh defense sector has become a target of these attacks.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/yrWK4K20

Discord is a popular chat app used by gamers, technologists, and even local communities. Recently however, it potentially had a very serious data breach involving the government identification of its users.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/1QJdNW5b

In many doomsday scenarios AI become sentient and try to kill mankind, but has this already started to happen? Many sensational headlines would lead you to believe so, but the answer is a little more complicated than that...

Sources: https://pastebin.com/sgjfdr8j

3 notorious hacking groups have teamed up to form one huge site threatening to extort 39 major organizations out of their Salesforce data, which was acquired through a series of phishing attacks. Though Salesforce was not actually a target themselves, they also face extortion and some reputational damage.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/jNr9Qsrr

Oh how the mighty have fallen. It takes a lot for a business to survive even 5 years after an attack, let alone 158. So what could kill such a strong business that clearly has it figured out? It turns out the Achilles heel is often just a single bad password.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/7M6vKycy

Spear phishing can potentially get even more realistic with the use of generative AI. Recently North Korean threat actors leveraged prompt injection to create surprisingly realistic South Korean military documents

Sources: https://pastebin.com/H4qH2YuK

Supply chain attacks are one of the most devastating if done right, and one of the biggest in the history of NPM just occurred. However it was probably less fruitful than the attackers were hoping...

Sources: https://pastebin.com/GfquiVgZ