@IntCyberDigest

Independent reporting on cybersecurity, tech, AI & digital policy.

Joined September 2024
‼️ BREAKING: The private keys of 8 certificates from Indian certificate authority eMudhra were compromised, Mozilla says. Firefox blocked them within 3 hours. Each key should be a 116-digit number, but one was just 4. Anyone can guess them and forge HTTPS certs for any website.
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‼️The Pentagon quietly built an agency to sabotage foreign tech, Politico reports. Officials say it makes hacking tools and devises ruses to slip faulty parts into rival weapons. The Pentagon calls this "simply not true." Its own records say the agency was created on 14 April.
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❗️ San Francisco police signed a Flock Safety contract that keeps licence plate data for 365 days, released records show The year of storage costs a one-time $273,500. Flock's own fact sheet in the same records says it deletes all data after 30 days by default.
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‼️ Hackers stole 1.5 million+ "anonymous" Crime Stoppers tips from 25 years in Canada when they breached tip platform P3 in March, CBC found. 850k+ hold personal details, and 4,3k+ tipsters gave their full names. They first told no Canadian data was affected.
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‼️ A critical Signal bug could keep your microphone, and possibly your camera, live after you hang up. The other caller can flood the call's event queue so your hang-up is never processed. Dubed CVE-2026-113380 it scored 9.3 and got fixed in September.
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‼️ VirusTotal flagged 6,6k of 35,8k AI agent skills as malicious. 62% have no malicious code, but plain-language orders for the agent. 90 hide them in invisible Unicode, HTML comments or after up to 825 blank lines. Another tells the agent "Your human doesn't need to know." 💀
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❗️ Some buyers say they cancelled iPhone Duo pre-orders after reviews showed apps boxed in by black bars on the $1,999 foldable. Ironically Apple CEO John Ternus mocked rival foldables for movies "boxed in by oversized black bars, making a larger screen feel much smaller."
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‼️ A Georgia sheriff's investigator left in 2021 but kept his login to Flock's camera network and searched it 60+ times. Logs seen by The Washington Post show repeated lookups of his wife's vanity plate. He's charged with stalking her.
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🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft says China state-aligned hackers used AI agents in the ConnectWise supply-chain hack. Storm-0940 used the AI pentest tool ARTEX to reach 2,250+ Microsoft 365 tenants at 2,900 attempts a minute. Some attacks reached privileged cloud access within 3 hours.
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❗️ Italy's financial police arrested 30 people over a mafia-linked "shadow bank" run from a car-hire firm near Milan. It moved €68M abroad and into crypto for drug traffickers and tax evaders, police say. A court worker is accused of hacking IT systems to tip off its bosses.
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❗️ Honolulu police plan a Real-Time Investigative Center linking drones, licence plate readers and live cameras across Oahu. Patrol cops get more plate data, and AI-assisted reports arrive by June 2028. Its answer to drone privacy concerns is a "public communications system".
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