Notices by Selena Larson (selenalarson@mastodon.social)

New report on the web injects landscape, two new threat actors, and new Mac malware: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/update-fake-updates-two-new-actors-and-new-mac-malware

Stoked to put my rant to paper for this RUSI commentary!

“The truth is that foreign government adversaries no longer have a monopoly on sophistication or persistence. Cybercriminals have just as much if not more of an impact on the Western world.”

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/why-biasing-advanced-persistent-threats-over-cybercrime-security-risk

Lmao incredible compliment for @GossiTheDog on my Sleuthcon talk from earlier this year

Watch here: https://youtu.be/HEovdEHjF5s

What an absolute honor to meet @ciaranmartin IRL and get a tour of Hertford College including walking across the Bridge of Sighs! ✨

It’s been very fun to see a lot of APT researchers suddenly and recently realize cybercrime is important actually

New research looks at a very crafty threat actor that specifically targets and compromises transport and logistics firms, then sends malware via existing email threads. They have custom social engineering too, appear to do their research on targets https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/security-brief-actor-uses-compromised-accounts-customized-social-engineering

Hey guys, you don’t need a mother, sister, or daughter to care about women’s rights. It’s so nice to hear a man say, when asked “why do you support [policy that impacts women and girls]?”

“Because women’s rights are human rights. And I care about and support all women.” Not just because you are related to one.

@danilo I find it so funny how certain people are like “we’re doomed” meanwhile all my group chats are like let’s gooooooooo

There are a lot more people galvanized by this than doomsdaying imo

Wild they’re only allowing updates through Sept 29?! That itself is a security risk. https://www.wired.com/story/us-bans-kaspersky-software/

There are so many quotable parts in this lmao https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

I am begging people to stop using AI generated image garbage on their social posts when trying to make smart points. Completely undermines your whole argument when the image is full of misspelled words and graphics that don’t make any sense 🤦♀️

Wow this is awful. The US military ran an anti-vax disinformation campaign in the Philippines to discredit China’s vaccine. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

10 miles this afternoon, longest run since my injury hooray! It was half dance part half run. Got rather hot at the end. Happy weekend.

Data brokers are bad enough, but imagine executives sell data to worse criminals who fraud the elderly and others. I hope they get the maximum.

“The scheme lasted for 10 years, resulting in hundreds of thousands of Americans losing large sums of money to fraudsters in what was essentially a targeted, data-driven scam.”

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/data-firm-execs-convicted-for-helping-fraudsters-target-the-elderly/

@GossiTheDog ugh. I’m not looking forward to the future of work.

@GossiTheDog lol every single AI advertisement is just absolute garbage dystopia capitalist nonsense and makes me hate it even more

Honestly can’t think of a feature I want less in my computer than literally retaining key logging and screenshots and tracking literally everything I do. That’s … malware.

Devastated that my fav hot sauce appears to be discontinued, anyone have a good rec for a smoky ghost pepper based hot sauce?

@GossiTheDog @briankrebs lol really I didn’t know this

Currently sitting in a coffee shop listening to teens complain about how all cars are "smart" now and they can't play any of their old school CD collections in new cars these days and how having computers in cars is actually not safe. I love them.