Hotel toilet privacy is disappearing.
Glass doors.
Or no door.
Or a big window into the room.
Who is asking for this?
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Chasing digital badness at the citizen lab. All words here are my own.
Suddenly hearing about zcash everywhere.
Feels inorganic.
What's up?
POV: you can't sleep because your bed can't talk to AWS.
Design thinking that inserts brittle dependence into our lives while extracting fees for life.
Don't be these guys.
Design thinking that inserts brittle dependence into our lives while extracting fees for life.
Don't be these guys.
NEW: 🇰🇵DPRK hackers have begun hiding malware on blockchain.
Result, decentralized, immutable malware from a government crypto theft operation.
It only cost $1.37 USD in gas fees per malware change (e.g. to update the command & control server)
Blockchains as malware dead drops are a fascinating, predictable evolution for nation state attackers.
And Blockchain explorers are a natural target.
Nearly impossible to remove.
Experimentation with putting malware on blockchains is in infancy.
Ultimately there will be some efforts to try and implement social engineering protection around this, but combined with things like agentic AI & vibe coding by low-information people...whew boy this gold seam is going to be productive for a long time.
Still, where here they used social engineering, I expect attackers to also experiment with directly loading zero click exploits onto blockchains targeting things like blockchain explorers & other systems that process blockchains... especially if they are sometimes hosted on the same systems & networks that handle transactions / have wallets.
REPORT: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dprk-adopts-etherhiding
It only cost $1.37 USD in gas fees per malware change (e.g. to update the command & control server)
Blockchains as malware dead drops are a fascinating, predictable evolution for nation state attackers.
And Blockchain explorers are a natural target.
Nearly impossible to remove.
Experimentation with putting malware on blockchains is in infancy.
Ultimately there will be some efforts to try and implement social engineering protection around this, but combined with things like agentic AI & vibe coding by low-information people...whew boy this gold seam is going to be productive for a long time.
Still, where here they used social engineering, I expect attackers to also experiment with directly loading zero click exploits onto blockchains targeting things like blockchain explorers & other systems that process blockchains... especially if they are sometimes hosted on the same systems & networks that handle transactions / have wallets.
REPORT: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dprk-adopts-etherhiding
NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.
For some users this means their passports & drivers licenses.
Discord has only run age verification for 6 months.
Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.
Proponents say age verification = showing your ID at the door to a bar.
But the analogy is often wrong.
It's more like: bouncer photocopies some IDs, & keeps them in a shed around back.
There will be more breaches.
But it should bother you that the technology promised to make us all safer, is quickly making us less so.
STORIES:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/10/05/discord-confirms-users-hacked---photos-and-messages-accessed/
Proponents say age verification = showing your ID at the door to a bar.
But the analogy is often wrong.
It's more like: bouncer photocopies some IDs, & keeps them in a shed around back.
There will be more breaches.
But it should bother you that the technology promised to make us all safer, is quickly making us less so.
STORIES:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/10/05/discord-confirms-users-hacked---photos-and-messages-accessed/
The Verge
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.