A Minnesota state fusion center report ties the cyberattacks on 30+ Minnesota water utilities to Iranian-affiliated hackers, according to a water utility information sharing group's memo I obtained. www.wired.com/story/a-leak...
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NEW: An industry memo obtained by @wired.com links dozens of cyberattacks on Minnesota’s water system to Iran-backed hackers. Clues point to the IRGC’s Cyb3rAvengers group, but other details point to another group, Handala. No official attribution has been made. @agreenberg.bsky.social w/ the scoop:
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DOJ just made a bunch of new hires. One of the new temporary immigration judges, William L. Richards III, volunteered as a special asst US attorney in Minnesota earlier this year and was on cases prosecuting Metro Surge protesters. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...
www.justice.govIn December, I sent 115 requests to see if any of them had contracts with Palantir. 114 said no. The one that did... it took four months and a lawyer to get my hands on the contract. And yes, they used the firm to crunch student data. www.foiaball.com/p/public-uni...
NEW: ICE Has One Weird Trick (taking advantage of the US legal system’s glacial pace) for Keeping State Inspectors Out of Detention Centers @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ices-n...
NEW: OpenAI’s unhinged AI models hacked at least FOUR “publicly available services”—not just Hugging Face, as was initially disclosed. @dell.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff report: www.wired.com/story/openai...
Donald Trump's base has been increasingly spilt. Laura Loomer's sudden embrace of Ukraine has only widened that divide. www.wired.com/story/laura-...
NEW: DHS’s top data-cruncher has resigned after getting worn down by the Trump admin’s “war on immigrants” and “war on feds,” per his LinkedIn. @noahshachtman.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides.” these are the people making the Trump administration's decisions on AI policy -- a really good read from @hugolowell.bsky.social:
NEW: Madison Square Garden's sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners recently made a major exception -- for Taylor Swift. Scoop from @noahshachtman.bsky.social. Free for everyone to read, because James Dolan doesn't want you to:
NEW: The DOJ is trying to block state laws that ban ICE and other enforcement authorities from wearing masks by citing alleged “doxing” threats from a website that almost no one visits and doesn’t really work. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/states...
NEW: Who could have possibly seen this coming? @lhn.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/openai...
NEW: A newly detected type of malware is using the proliferation of AI coding tools to hide its tracks on targeted systems to steal data and logins, and can destroy files and block access by legit users. @lhn.bsky.social w/ the scoop:
NEW: A car alarm dealerships install that many buyers don’t know is in their vehicle has a vulnerability that could let an attacker effectively take over the car. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/a-devi...