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For more than a year I’ve spoken with Scattered Spider “caller” Noah Urban from a Florida jail. I wanted to know how they chose victims, their methods and how Noah became entangled in a virtually and physically violent world. We’re publishing his story today: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

‘I Was a Weird Kid’: Jailhouse Confessions of a Teen Hacker

Noah Urban’s role in the notorious Scattered Spider gang was talking people into unwittingly giving criminals access to sensitive computer systems.

bloomberg.com

I found this article interesting, but it isn't technically a UAC bypass - if you have the Administrator username and password, you can authenticate to the host via TaskScheduler by design. The other vulnerabilities were also not really of any value to an attacker. cymulate.com/blog/task-sc...

Task Scheduler– New Vulnerabilities for schtasks.exe

UAC bypass, metadata poisoning, and log overflow vulnerabilities in Windows Task Scheduler reveal new tactics for defense evasion and privilege escalation

cymulate.com

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem’s purse was stolen from a downtown Washington restaurant Sunday night, with her passport, DHS badge and about $3,000 cash inside, the department confirmed Monday.

DHS Secretary Noem’s purse stolen at Easter dinner with family in D.C.

The theft occurred as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem dined with her extended family at the Capital Burger on Seventh Street NW, people familiar with the incident said.

washingtonpost.com

Zhuowei Zhang released POC code for CVE-2024-53104, a zero-day used by Cellebrite to unlock Android devices -patched in February -used by Serbian law enforcement to unlock the phones of anti-government protesters and journalists github.com/zhuowei/face...

facedancer/examples/camera.py at rawgadget2 · zhuowei/facedancer

Fork of https://github.com/xairy/Facedancer/tree/rawgadget with patches for testing CVE-2024-53197 - zhuowei/facedancer

github.com

Exploitation of CVE-2025-21204. Low-privileged user creates an "inetpub" and populates with content. Administrator later installs IIS (logic bomb). The attackers malicious IIS data is still available, executes code under IIS privileges resulting in an LPE. KB/patches do stuff too

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NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it: www.404media.co/this-college...

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

404media.co

Exploitation of CVE-2025-21204. Low-privileged user creates an "inetpub" and populates with content. Administrator later installs IIS (logic bomb). The attackers malicious IIS data is still available, executes code under IIS privileges resulting in an LPE. KB/patches do stuff too

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CISA has told workers in an email today to stop sending weekly responses to Musk's "What did you do last week?" email. The agency says it's still reviewing responses received to the initial Feb 28 email, and workers should withhold any additional responses "until further notice."

An unknown leaker has released what they claim to be an archive of internal Matrix chat logs with messages exchanged by Black Basta ransomware members between September 18, 2023, and September 28, 2024. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Black Basta ransomware gang's internal chat logs leak online

An unknown leaker has released what they claim to be an archive of internal Matrix chat logs belonging to the Black Basta ransomware operation.

bleepingcomputer.com