NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

404media.co

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

wapo.st

NEW: A vulnerability in the pope’s official prayer app, Click To Pray, has left the information of its nearly 720,000 users exposed. Names, email addresses, and countries of origin remain vulnerable despite a responsible disclosure six months ago. san.com/cc/the-popes...

The pope’s prayer app has been leaking its users’ info for months

A vulnerability in the pope’s official prayer app has reportedly left its nearly 720,000 users' information exposed.

san.com

New: cops are using Flock to track people, not cars. We reviewed Flock search data and found many, many cases of cops searching for people based on their appearance, race, tattoos, etc. Some searches are so vague like "tall man" that innocent people likely swept up www.404media.co/how-cops-use...

How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Me...

404media.co

Who’s watching the watchers? More police are abusing surveillance cameras, plus how to avoid being recorded by smart glasses straightarrowne.ws/4wLO6N3

Last month, the U.S. gov't asked a court to allow it to use a cell-site simulator, or "stingray," to track a criminal in Ohio. In a rare rebuke, the court denied the warrant, saying it would have also allowed the feds monitor the locations of nearby private citizens "at all times for thirty days."

U.S. judge denied feds a month-long warrant to snoop on the phones of thousands of Ohio residents

The magistrate judge's decision offers a rare view into how the government seeks to use cell-site simulators during law enforcement investigations.

this.weekinsecurity.com

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

The LAPD let its contract with Flock Safety expire after an audit found that its cameras were incorrectly flagging vehicles as stolen. san.com/cc/lapd-canc...

NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

wired.com

NEW: A police detective in Milwaukee tasked with investigating a fellow officer’s misuse of the department’s Flock license plate reader camera system has now been accused of misusing it himself. san.com/cc/milwaukee...

Milwaukee detective is latest officer charged with misusing Flock cameras

A Milwaukee police detective who investigated a fellow officer’s misuse of Flock’s cameras has been accused of misusing them himself.

san.com

The U.S., founded to thwart an oppressive monarchy, operates the most far-reaching and powerful surveillance machine in world history. san.com/cc/in-the-mo...

Canadian hacker Aubrey 'Kirtaner' Cottle has been sentenced to 18 months after pleading guilty to charges related to the 2021 hack of the Texas GOP website. Cottle will serve five months and three weeks after having his sentence reduced by time served. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Canadian hacker Aubrey Cottle sentenced to 18 months custody after pleading guilty to cyberattack charges

Mr. Cottle pleaded guilty last week to charges related to a hack of a Texas Republican Party website

theglobeandmail.com

New from 404 Media: Madison Square Garden made a dossier on activists who have opposed the venue's facial recognition program. MSG scans faces of people so some can be arbitrarily denied entry. Dossier includes specific activists, their contact info, tweets, etc www.404media.co/madison-squa...

Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition

The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.

404media.co

NEW: A spyware and hacking tools maker released details of an unpatchable flaw in Apple chips that could potentially allow hackers to make a jailbreak for older devices. The flaw, dubbed usbliter8, can help someone with physical access to devices up to the iPhone 11 to unlock and break into them.

A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak  | TechCrunch

European offensive cybersecurity company Paradigm Shift released details of a flaw and a technique to exploit it that opens the door for hackers to unlock and break into older iPhones.

techcrunch.com

Officially presenting "Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files" at @hope.net with @mikaelthalen.bsky.social, @mazmhussain.bsky.social, and @ryangrim.bsky.social www.hope.net/talks/#Leaki...

TALKS - HOPE

Here are some of the HOPE 26 talks that have been finalized. We will be updating this section every day from now until HOPE so keep checking! Autonomous Exploitation at Scale Ambient Computing: When A...

hope.net

NEW: Aubrey Cottle, the Canadian hacker known as "Kirtaner," has pled guilty to charges related to the 2021 hack of the Texas Republican Party. Prosecutors want 2.5 years. Cottle, whose been in jail since October, wants time served. Cottle is also facing charges in the U.S. san.com/cc/hacker-pl...

Hacker pleads guilty to breach of Texas GOP website

A Canadian hacker with ties to the hacktivist collective Anonymous has pleaded guilty to a cyberattack against the Texas Republican Party.

san.com

NEW: Dialog—the secretive, invite-only organization of elites founded by Peter Thiel, often referred to as the Bilderberg Group for tech—exposed the private information of attendees to its annual meeting this year in Ireland. san.com/cc/peter-thi...

Peter Thiel’s ‘Dialog’ network was super-secret. A data leak changed that

A data leak has exposed private data on billionaire Peter Thiel’s “Dialog,” an invitation-only network of high-profile figures.

san.com

New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

404media.co

New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change “We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs

The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...

404media.co

NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ @dell.bsky.social

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

wired.com

NEW: A Ransomware gang has published over 11,000 internal files from Mike Lindell's company MyPillow. Prior to the leak, Lindell told me that he guaranteed no such hack had taken place. When I texted him photos of the files today, he didn't respond. More on the files here: san.com/cc/mike-lind...

Mike Lindell denied MyPillow was hacked. Its private data is now online

A ransomware group leaked thousands of internal files from MyPillow two days after CEO Mike Lindell denied that a hack had taken place.

san.com

NEW: Mike Lindell denies claims made by a ransomware gang that his company MyPillow was hacked. "This is another hit job by outside sources because I'm running for governor," he told me. "We are the most secure company in this country." The ransom deadline is Friday. san.com/cc/mike-lind...

Mike Lindell says alleged cyberattack on MyPillow is actually a political attack on him

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell denies that a ransomware group hacked his company — but says claims about the attack are politically motivated.

san.com

NEW: A ransomware gang claims to have hacked 'MyPillow," the company founded by 2020 election conspiracy theorist & Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell. The hackers have threatened to leak the company's data on Friday if a ransom isn't paid. san.com/cc/mike-lind...

Mike Lindell’s ‘MyPillow’ is latest target of ransomware attack

A ransomware gang says it hacked MyPillow, the company founded by 2020 election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.

san.com

NEW: 'BusPatrol' put AI cameras in tens of thousands of school buses to catch people who overtake parked buses. Now, according to leaked documents, BusPatrol plans to scan all license plates buses pass and give that data to law enforcement. Think, Flock on wheels www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...

‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access

BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance v...

404media.co

NEW: “Anti-tech extremism” is now actively being monitored by US law enforcement as frustration over AI and data centers percolate across the country, according to records obtained by @wired.com. @drboguslaw.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA www.wired.com/story/us-law...

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

wired.com

NEW: Trump Mobile finally confirms that it was exposing customers' names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and cellphone numbers. The company blamed a third-party provider and said it found no evidence that credit card numbers, SSNs, or other financial information spilled online.

Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers' personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses | TechCrunch

President Trump’s branded cell phone maker and cell provider said the exposure was linked to a third-party platform, and was evaluating whether it needs to notify customers.

techcrunch.com

wait, the FBI Director has a personal merch website???

Mikael Thalen@mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel's personal merchandise website was taken offline today after it was revealed that hackers had hijacked it to trick visitors into downloading malware. san.com/cc/kash-pate...

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel's personal merchandise website was taken offline today after it was revealed that hackers had hijacked it to trick visitors into downloading malware. san.com/cc/kash-pate...

Kash Patel’s personal merch site hacked to trick users into installing malware

FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal merchandise site went offline after a hack apparently tricked visitors into downloading malware.

san.com

NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

One line tucked into a federal highway bill would strip funds from cities and states unless they kill their automated plate tracking programs—effectively banning the tech for all but toll collection.

wired.com