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CARTOON/FARMER.GIF

Its only funny, because its true.

https://www.theexploit.co/articles/cybersecuritys-hottest-new-go-to-market-strategy-refusing-to-launch

This is the funniest thing that happened in tech in a long time
https://bird.makeup/users/osrdrivers/statuses/2042286973461709183

"If you're doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear ?
- I'm fearing your definition of wrong. "

#StarWars #Andor #Senate #OperationLikeTheWind #Meme ...

Wrote about the attacker-defender asymmetry and why AI made it worse -- "AI for defense" is stuck polishing the top five turtles while adversaries live in the bottom ten. https://cje.io/2026/04/08/offense-scales-with-compute-defense-scales-with-committees/

🚀 We just sent a team of humans to the moon and safely home.

Not one bit of generative AI was used or needed.

You don't need it in your office or organization, either.

We can do great things without pillaging public resources and funds for a scam.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NASA #Artemis #moon #genAI #generativeAI #slop

A sign of the times.

There is at least one Adobe Reader 0day being exploited in the wild:
https://justhaifei1.blogspot.com/2026/04/expmon-detected-sophisticated-zero-day-adobe-reader.html

TL;DR: One 0day is being used to simply communicate details to a C2 server to get further commands. Specifically, there is a vulnerability that allows reading arbitrary local files using Reader JavaScript. In this case, ntdll.dll and friends, so that the C2 knows specifically what version of Windows the victim is running.

Nobody knows what secondary payload the C2 is delivering to selected targets. But it's a direct pipeline to allow the C2 to run arbitrary JavaScript on the victim system.

So I'll bet dollars to donuts that there is a second more powerful vulnerability that the attackers have up their sleeves. Or at the very least, the same vulnerability that allows the privileged file read might be able to be leveraged to do something nasty. And the whole AES-encrypted C2 stuff is merely to not put the payload statically in the exploit PDF, allowing a dynamic payload for any given target.

Edit: This is now fixed as CVE-2026-34621.

Artemis II mission planning:

"We strap you on a rocket, launch around the Moon based on some absurdly complicated mathematical formulas, then guide you back down the atmosphere at insane speeds, trying hard not to burn you alive.

Finally, we have to make sure you don't splash down at these particular areas of our planet, or some angry Earthlican may just shoot you."

Humanity is weird.

cpuid has been compromised, most downloads are serving a rat+infostealer as we speak, make sure you didn't get hit

We publish a major Citizen Lab report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising.

Customers include ICE, El Salvador and Hungary.

Our research shows that ad-based surveillance is now used by military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies down to local police in several countries.

Full report here:
https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/

This comic needed an update

Very slightly work adjacent: a "we've updated our privacy policy" email in my inbox reminded me of a thing that $work did, and that I wish every company did: we checked all our ToS and similar documents into a git repo and published it, so that when they change you can just go look at the damn diff and see what changed (https://github.com/tailscale/terms-and-conditions).

If you work someplace and have the authority to do this, I wish this was normalized and expected of corporations that expect us to ingest a short story worth of legalese and keep up with the changes over time.

Thanks to
@jasminecarter.bsky.social
my cumulative complexity calculator for #Ghidra now has a cute logo:

https://github.com/v-p-b/rabbithole

Fair criticism of the latest @Bellingcat piece about leaked .gov.hu credentials (HU, use your favorite translator):

https://kiber.blog.hu/2026/04/09/tobb_szaz_magyar_kormanyzati_jelszo_kerult_ki_az_internetre_ja_de_mikor

There is *a lot* to report about in Hungarian politics/natsec, but digging up old credential dumps just misdirects attention and discredits relevant investigative work.

Unfortunately many skeptical takes on #Mythos / #Glasswing remind me of Gell-Mann amnesia:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect

Every #LLM company and claim deserves ruthless skepticism, but arguments based on falsehoods and misunderstandings don't lead us forward.

Watching this talk is recommended:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg

Near as I can tell, this is all very good news. More things should take advantage of secure enclaves, and this open standard protects against one of the hardest current defense surfaces.

https://security.googleblog.com/2026/04/protecting-cookies-with-device-bound.html