New Attack Abusing Multicast Poisoning for PreAuthenticated Kerberos Relay
A novel attack method leveraging multicast poisoning to execute pre-authenticated Kerberos relay attacks over HTTP.
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Chinese Livestreaming ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts
This article was produced with support from WIRED. The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard, like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman wearing a white shirt and black skirt is always livestreaming, boasting about the various features of different office…
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump’s Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials. ICE-spotting app developers tell 404 Media the decision to host CBP’s new…
Sellers of Anom, the FBI’s Secret Backdoored Phone, Plead Guilty
A group of men who sold Anom devices, the encrypted phone secretly backdoored by the FBI which led to the largest sting operation in history, pleaded guilty this month in San Diego. The defendants had been set to go to trial, in which the government was preparing to reveal the real identity of the confidential…
Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook’s Censorship
In early December I got the kind of tip we’ve been getting a lot over the past year. A reader had noticed a post from someone on Reddit complaining about a very graphic sexual ad appearing in their Instagram Reels. I’ve seen a lot of ads for scams or shady dating sites recently, and some…
Trump’s DHS Guts Board Investigating Chinese Hacking Group Salt Typhoon
The DHS’ acting director said that anyone who got canned is ‘welcome to reapply.’
Will 2025 See a Rise of NHI Attacks?
The flurry of non-human identity attacks at the end of 2024 demonstrates extremely strong momentum heading into the new year. That does not bode well.
Jim Cramer Calls Analyst Sell Rating on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is ‘Jarring’
We recently published a list of 10 AI Stocks Everyone is Talking About These Days. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) stands against other AI stocks everyone is talking about these days. President Donald Trump’s $500 billion investment plan to build AI infrastructure, Stargate,…
Peeing Is Socially Contagious in Chimps
Welcome back to the Abstract! What a week. It kicked off with Blue Monday, a date considered the most depressing of the year in the Northern Hemisphere for dubious reasons (in short: it was invented, like most of our reality, by an ad campaign). This column will channel the latent crappy vibes with a parade…
Behind the Blog: Debriefing on Two Trips
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss San Diego and Costa Rica reporting trips. SAM: Some weeks I feel like I’ve absorbed way too much internet to be able to formulate any more thoughts…