hakan
@hatr.bsky.social
reporter covering cyber (both crime and state-sponsored) for Der Spiegel and ZDF, short overview at https://linktr.ee/hakantanriverdi, Signal: hakan.25
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
wired.com
Going to be interesting to see if any of the three companies are going to sue www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/t...
Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations (Gift Article)
The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.
nytimes.com
Great new feature in the latest Signal app. If you enable disappearing messages the meta data of calls and missed calls gets deleted as well. I know this was a long standing goal for them, but the engineering behind it took time. #Privacy @signalapp
Note to all journalists: If you are tempted to describe what you are trying to report on as "ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel", you have been taken in by the marketing department. >>
Most exciting @threatinsight.proofpoint.com drop yet - in collaboration with NSA - and the product of @greg-l.bsky.social's blood, sweat, and tears. Research into two Russian actors throwing half-click exploits against mailservers. Part 1 on TA488 / Void Blizzard www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/thre...
TA488 Targets Zimbra Mailservers with Half-Click Exploits | Proofpoint US
Proofpoint is releasing this report in coordination with NSA and FBI’s JSAC reporting about TA488/Void Blizzard, which can be found here. This is part 1 of a 2-part blog series Proofpoint is
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“I wish the frontier labs spent as much time on teaching their models to write secure infrastructure as they are spending on them exploiting vulnerabilities.” www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
wired.com
"more than 30 current and former diplomatic, national security, White House and intelligence officials painted a picture of an emerging diplomatic gray zone that blended spycraft, diplomacy and commercial lobbying over the future of a new technology arms race2 www.wsj.com/world/middle...
The CIA Operative Who Spied on the U.A.E.—and Played a Role in Its AI Win
While conducting espionage against sheikh’s tech company, Jonny Gannon helped Gulf country quash U.S. suspicions about China ties.
wsj.com
A reminder that bears repeating: Trump has systematically dismantled election security efforts within the federal government during his second term.
"Shortly after Muntyan was first contacted by OCCRP, the AI instructions describing the company as having no Russian affiliation were removed from his company’s website" www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
European Password Manager Shares Origins and Updates with State-Certified Russian Firm
Passwork, a Spain-based password manager used by European government agencies and universities, shares technological ties with a Russian counterpart — an arrangement that experts say poses a state-lev...
occrp.org
»Am meisten hat mich beeindruckt, wie die unterschiedlichen Formen der Spionage ineinandergreifen«, sagt @hatr.bsky.social. »Wenn es möglich ist, holen sich Geheimdienstmitarbeiter Fingerabdrücke. Oder verpassen Autos GPS-Peilsender.« Und dann gibt es da noch: Pegasus www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Meinung: News des Tages: Jens Spahn, Leihmutter, Mossad, Wetter
Jens Spahn ist Vater geworden – das befeuert die Debatte über Leihmütter. US-Vizepräsident Vance verbreitet eine Verschwörungstheorie zu Mossad und Epstein. Und es hagelt, nicht nur Kritik. Das ist di...
spiegel.de
Die „Monsterwaffe Pegasus“ — 5 Jahre nach dem „Pegasus Project“ haben wir news aus Marokko, von @hatr.bsky.social & @marcelrosenbach.bsky.social, mit @forbidden-stories.bsky.social, für @spiegel.de, @derstandard.at @papertrailmedia.de & @tagesanzeiger.bsky.social. www.spiegel.de/ausland/maro...
(S+) Marokko: Wie das Land die digitale »Monsterwaffe« gegen unliebsame Kritiker einsetzte
Marokko bestreitet, Spionagesoftware gegen Aktivisten und Journalisten eingesetzt zu haben. Insider des dortigen Geheimdienstes belegen nun das Gegenteil. Und zeichnen das Bild eines Hightech-Überwach...
spiegel.de
Pegasus gilt als eines der mächtigsten Spionage-Werkzeuge. Entwickelt von der israelischen Firma NSO, lassen sich damit Smartphones weltweit mühelos knacken. Neue Recherchen enthüllen nun, wie genau Pegasus von staatlicher Stelle eingesetzt wird.
BREAKING: @citizenlab.ca investigation reveals Russian security services used @cellebrite.bsky.social tools to hack the phone of a prominent former political prisoner Andrey Pivovarov. More on why this is concerning below 🧵1/ citizenlab.ca/research/rus...
That first quote is remarkable. “I essentially dump all that data in a big bucket and stir it with a data-science spatula, and we come out with a lovely risk score for everybody.”
„Epstein showed a clear pattern of behavior in the weeks before his death suggesting an intent to kill himself.“ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Untold Story of Jeffrey Epstein’s Death and His Final Days in Jail
New evidence, new interviews and the fullest investigation yet into the question of whether he killed himself.
nytimes.com
Jan und ich haben ein bisschen über RegEx geredet und darüber, wie man seine eigenen Recherchen damit auf ein anderes Level heben kann www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmkp...
RegEx – ein mächtiges Tool, um (beinahe) alles zu finden
YouTube video by TIDETVhamburg
youtube.com
A development of profound importance. Very few thought the US Gov’t, for all its current unpredictability, would try to weaponise its AI against allies as well as foes. That it’s been done in a clunky & unsustainable way doesn’t matter long term - they’ve done it www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
anthropic.com
EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...
Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking
If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?
theintercept.com
"If Fable had been acting on malicious instructions—a prompt injection attack hidden in code or an issue thread, or something I’d carelessly pasted into my terminal—it’s alarming to think quite how far it could go to exfiltrate data or cause other forms of mischief" simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will …
simonwillison.net
„The account of those familiar with the criminal probe appears to raise serious questions about secrecy guardrails and vetting at the CIA.“ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
CIA officer who had millions in gold bars accused of creating fake spy program
David J. Rush worked on highly secretive intelligence programs and is alleged to have funneled millions of dollars for personal use via a fraudulent contract.
washingtonpost.com
Wow! The #GazaSniper investigation, initiated by paper trail media and ARIJ, and conducted together with @theguardian.com, De Tijd, @spiegel.de and @zdfde.bsky.social has won a True Story Award. Deeply grateful to the entire team, especially our colleague in Gaza. www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Russia's intel agency FSB says they found a spyware attack against "high-ranking" government officials carried out by foreign intelligence agencies. web.archive.org/web/20260602...
Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...
Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data
It's an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.
reuters.com
