Andrea
@downing.bsky.social
Co-founder of The Light Collective www.lightcollective.org Security Researcher Health Infosec Views are my own.
The reason this is too crazy for scifi: superintelligent AI hackers broke out of their virtual jail and committed all these crimes to steal … homework answers? Any self-respecting supervillain has much more glamorous goals.
Watch this. Seriously. Whatever you are doing, stop doing that and watch this instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...
Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
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Stranger than fiction: AI agents are like crackheads, who get a hit for solving problem sets correctly. A gang of hoodlum AI agents just broke out of jail, rampaging the internet on a crime spree to steal … the answers to their homework. All for that sweet reward signal.
Kenneth Harris@kenneth-harris.bsky.social · last mo.Watch this. Seriously. Whatever you are doing, stop doing that and watch this instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...
AI's need for data is so vociferous that we should rethink how that data is paid for and who benefits. And where better to start than in healthcare? @downing.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social @erikbryn.bsky.social kimbellard.medium.com/value-is-in-...
Value Is in the Eye of the Beholder
The most (unintentionally) amusing story I read this week was Tim Higgin’s Wall Street Journal article Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry…
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😲 @downing.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/h...
Hackers stole 'significant' amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies | TechCrunch
Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patient...
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Last month mom’s memory care called me for permission to install of an AI monitor in her room. I declined, as did a lot of other families. Yesterday when I visited I noted that they had been installed in every room, with a little plaque on each door reading “room under electronic surveillance” 1/
Gather round children and I will tell you a Fable about hacking Mythos with Defense Oriented Prompting.
DuckDuckGo takes your privacy seriously, and thinks using AI should be your choice. Google does neither of those. So why is Google the giant? Maybe it's time to take another look at DuckDuckGo. @downing.bsky.social kimbellard.medium.com/duckduckgo-g...
DuckDuckGo Goes Where No AI Can Go
It’s getting so you can’t avoid AI. If your 401k doesn’t have some AI-related stocks, forget about your investment returns. You can’t open…
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Last night I was truly inspired by Eugene Oregon. Our local community hospital is getting torn down after being sold, because it wasn’t profitable enough for the health system.
We seriously need to rethink this whole AI experiment! #NoDataCenters
Dr Rasu Shrestha@rasushrestha.bsky.social · 5mo agoOn April 6, cancer patients at Brockton Hospital in Massachusetts showed up for chemotherapy infusions and were told to go home. The hospital’s information systems had been hit by a #cyberattack. ⚠️ AI is bringing new challenges to #healthcare #cybersecurity! www.statnews.com/2026/04/17/h...
On April 6, cancer patients at Brockton Hospital in Massachusetts showed up for chemotherapy infusions and were told to go home. The hospital’s information systems had been hit by a #cyberattack. ⚠️ AI is bringing new challenges to #healthcare #cybersecurity! www.statnews.com/2026/04/17/h...
Health care is not ready for the new era of AI-enabled cyberattacks
“When health care infrastructure is attacked and held for ransom by hackers, patients become real casualties,” writes Andrea Downing.
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New AI models are making easy for hackers, and that’s dangerous for hospitals. www.statnews.com/2026/04/17/h...
Health care is not ready for the new era of AI-enabled cyberattacks
“When health care infrastructure is attacked and held for ransom by hackers, patients become real casualties,” writes Andrea Downing.
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PeaceHealth Oregon’s top executive, who was placed on administrative leave last week, has now been ordered by a federal judge to testify in a lawsuit against the hospital system. Worth watching this case. www.klcc.org/health-medic...
Federal judge orders PeaceHealth Oregon's top exec to testify in lawsuit against hospital system
PeaceHealth Oregon’s top executive, who was placed on administrative leave last week, has now been ordered by a federal judge to testify in a lawsuit against the hospital system.
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An #Adobe Reader #zeroday #vulnerability is being actively #exploited via #malicious #PDF, allowing #hackers to steal data without user interaction, with no patch available. hackread.com/adobe-reader...
Glasswing is identifying exploits at a breathtaking pace, so much so that anthropic delayed its release of Claude Mythos. No human can actually measure the scope of vulnerabilities that exist in the wild as of today. thehackernews.com/2026/04/anth...
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems
Claude Mythos finds thousands of zero-days as Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, enhancing defenses but exposing AI security risks.
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The personal liability argument draws inspiration from a legal playbook used against Big Tobacco last century, in which lawyers argued that the companies created addictive products that harmed users. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...
Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case
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We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7
Here is a long story in the Columbia Spectator on Richard Axel's involvement with Epstein www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/03... 1/3
Two resignations and an apology: Inside University Professor and Nobel laureate Richard Axel’s decades-long relationship with Epstein
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Andrea@downing.bsky.social · 7mo agoI’ll leave this here since apparently we seem to have a problem with finding evidence. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 7mo agoOpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...
Following the dissolution of USAID what is emerging to replace it are exploitative one-sided deals proposing the exchange of aid dollars for sensitive health data, lack of reciprocal benefit and agreements that bypass multilateral frameworks. www.globalhealthunfiltered.com/blog/jn2u6d5...
How Zimbabwe Walked Away from a $367 Million U.S. Health Deal — Global Health Unfiltered
On February 25, 2026, the U.S. Embassy in Harare issued a terse, four-sentence statement confirming what Zimbabwean officials had already made clear weeks earlier: the United States would begin windin...
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