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Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb
✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com
Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: The FBI is looking for a hacker who published several video games on Steam that were laced with malware in the last two years.
The bureau is aslo looking for gamers who fell victim and installed these games on their computers.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/valve-steam-malware-games-fbi/
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: A global law enforcement operation took down a botnet allegedly used to facilitate ransomware, DDoS attacks, the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and other cybercrimes.
The botnet was made of more than 369,000 hacked routers and IoT devices, according to Europol.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: The pro-Iran hacktivists Handala claim to have hacked U.S. medical tech giant Stryker. Some company systems have been wiped, causing disruptions and outages worldwide.
The hakctivists said the attack was "in retaliation for the brutal attack on the Minab school," which killed dozens of kids.
“In this operation, over 200,000 systems, servers, and mobile devices have been wiped and 50 terabytes of critical data have been extracted. Stryker’s offices in 79 countries have been forced to shut down,” the hackers wrote in a message posted online.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: A hacker broke into a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office and compromised files related to the Epstein investigation, as first reported by Reuters.
“Following the 2023 cyber incident, the FBI contained the affected network and determined the incident to be an isolated one. The FBI restricted access to the malicious actor and rectified the network,” an FBI spokesperson said.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/hacker-broke-into-fbi-and-compromised-epstein-files-report-says/
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: A former DOGE employee allegedly stole Americans' personal data from two large databases at the Social Security Administration, according to a new report.
The former employee allegedly put the databases on a thumb drive and wanted to use them at their new contractor job.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
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 during the war and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google.
But the toolkit was initially developed for governments in the Five Eyes spy alliance, and it was used in Operation Triangulation, according to one source.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
I just learned that Trend Micro re-branded to TrendAI...uhm, OK.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: Dutch intelligence services are warning of new Russian government-backed hacking campaigns against Signal and WhatsApp users, including government and military officials, and journalists worldwide.
The phishing and social engineering techniques used are not new, but the fact that the Dutch are warning against them means they work.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: The FBI said it is investigating a hack on its networks.
The breach affected the FBI's systems to manage wiretaps and surveillace requests, according to CNN.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: Italian prosecutors confirm that the phone of journalist Francesco Cancellato was hacked with Paragon spyware at the same time as the phones of two immigration activists.
The Italian government admitted the hack on the activists, but said it wasn't behind Cancellato's hack.
So who was? The mystery continues. And Cancellato, as well as his colleague Ciro Pellegrino, who was also allegedly hacked, are demanding answers.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: Google said that last year, and for the first time, it found more zero-days used by spyware makers (15) rather than government-backed espionage groups (12) in the wild.
The shift demonstrated “a slow but sure movement in the landscape” of how governments hack targets, according to the company.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NSO Group has spent at least $7.6 million to lobby in Washington D.C., according to this report.
And it's gonna continue to pressure the U.S. government to get removed from the blocklist it was put on in 2021, in an attempt to get into the U.S. market.
NSO has hired a lot of people for its lobbying efforts.
https://www.techpolicy.press/will-nsos-us-lobbying-pay-off-under-trump/
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
This Google research on the Coruna iOS exploits is very interesting. And perhaps the most interestig things are all the open questions that are not answered here.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/coruna-powerful-ios-exploit-kit
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: Def Con banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from attending the conference based on their links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Holman and Iozzo exchanged emails with Epstein for several years.
http://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/hacking-conference-def-con-bans-three-people-linked-to-epstein/
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: Fintech lending giant Figure confirmed hackers stole “a limited number of files” after an employee was socially engineered.
The notorious hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the hack in a post on its dark web leak site, saying the company did not pay a ransom.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/fintech-lending-giant-figure-confirms-data-breach/
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: A sex toy maker notified customers that it suffered a data breach where a hacker stole customer names, email addresses, and historical email correspondence, “which may include order details or customer service inquiries.”
The company, Tenga, is not saying how many customers are affected.
It's also unclear if this only includes data from U.S. customers, as the email notification we obtained came from Tenga Store USA, but the company is Japanese and sells in several countries.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/sex-toys-maker-tenga-says-hacker-stole-customer-information/
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: Cybersecurity veteran Vincenzo Iozzo, who was linked to Epstein, has been removed from the webpage of the Black Hat conference review board.
Iozzo was in touch with Epstein 2014 to 2018, including after new stories came out about Epstein's sex trafficking crimes in late 2018, emails show.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: U.S. prosecutors say the hacking tools that Peter "Doogie" Williams stole from defense contractor L3Harris Trenchant could have been used against "millions of computers and devices" worldwide.
The prosecutors also confirmed that Williams "stood idly by while another employee of the company was essentially blamed" for his own actions, as we first reported last year.
Williams said he didn't know the tools could end up in the hands of Russia or other governments.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: A hacktivist scraped than half a million payment records from a stalkerware and consumer surveillance tech maker, exposing customers' email addresses and partial card numbers.
The hackvisit told us they did it because they think these companies are "creepy," and because they have fun "targeting apps that are used to spy on people."
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: In a new report, Norway says China's Salt Typhoon compromised several organizations in the country with the goal of espionage. The country did not name the victims.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/chinas-salt-typhoon-hackers-broke-into-norwegian-companies/
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: An alleged ransomware attack has taken the computer systems of one of the largest universities in Europe offline for three days.
La Sapienza university in Rome is still working to restore the systems, and an Italian newpaper reported that the hackers behind the attack are a new ransomware gang called Femwar02.
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NEW: The notorious cybercrime gang ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for last year's data breaches at Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.
The hackers also published some stolen personal information from the two schools, saying the universities refused to pay a ransom.
We saw the data published by ShinyHunters, and it appears to match the type of information that both universities said was stolen last year.
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NEW: French Police searched the local X offices as part of a criminal investigation for several crimes, including possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.
Paris prosecutor's office also announced that it summond Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino for questioning.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
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NEW: An informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a "personal hacker," according to a document released today.
The document does not name the hacker, but says he is Italian, developed and sold zero-days (iOS and Blackberry) to governments such as the U.K. and the United States, and even Hezbollah, which paid him with “a trunk of cash.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/informant-told-fbi-that-jeffrey-epstein-had-a-personal-hacker/
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb ✉️ lorenzo@techcrunch.com Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.
NEW: Russian government hackers were able to break into parts of Poland's energy infrastructure thanks to default usernames and passwords and no multi-factor authentication, the Polish government said in a report.
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