The ExfilSquad portal listings are real, they gained access to companies Microsoft Dynamics 365 environments (including Microsoft itself). Cause is poor security posture of victim orgs.
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Adform, a web advertising firm, have been hacked and have been serving a supply chain attack to steal crypto https://doublepulsar.com/adform-compromised-to-serve-crypto-stealer-via-supply-chain-attack-2f1ec024f33e
Oh my. A trusted source who enabled Google's new AI feature for Gmail just received this nudge from the service today, which encouraged him as part of his suggested to-dos list to fall for a cryptocurrency scam waiting in his inbox.
IDK why, but when I saw this I was reminded of that Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets a new phone number but it's the old Moviephone number, and so he starts answering the phone and reading the listings. "Why don't you just tell me what scams to click?"
Just a reminder that the costs of hosting is spiraling so if you love the fediverse, please consider supporting your instance if you can afford to do so and your instance accepts support. And my sincere thanks to the infosec donors that make our part of the fediverse possible. :blobheartcat:
Well done to the US government for running an AIDS conference, AI generating the slides, and presenting the slides with every country in Africa mislabelled by said AI https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries
I dunno how many people remember a few months ago when OpenAI made media headlines everywhere for launching Atlas, their AI agent browser... which was going to revolutionise how we use technology and rival Google.
Anyway, neither do OpenAI as they abandoned it and deleted the downloads.
New, by me: Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
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Nur 16 Jahre durfte ich auf den Moment warten, an dem der (fast) volle Mond genau hinter dem #Stuttgart er #Fernsehturm entlang zieht. War leider schon recht dunkel und kurz vor Betriebsende, daher kaum noch Menschen oben.
From the website of the company that’s destroying books to feed them into the ravenous AI maw.
“A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.” https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9