Es ist wohl die erste staatliche Ransomware-Zahlung in nennenswerter Höhe - und nun wird versucht, sie zu verschleiern. Ich habe Staatstheater, Ministerium, Staatsanwaltschaft und LKA gefragt. Die ersten beiden beteuern, dass sie nicht gezahlt haben. Die letzten beiden wollen nichts dazu sagen. Und ein externer IT-Fachmann sagt, er habe die Zahlung auf Bitten des LKA geleistet, „weil der Staat nicht zahlen darf.“
Hier ein Geschenklink zu meinem Text:

https://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2026-01/digitale-erpressung-staatstheater-stuttgart-cyberkriminalitaet-prozess?freebie=a4cb3747
#cybersecurity

Es ist wohl die erste staatliche Ransomware-Zahlung in nennenswerter Höhe - und nun wird versucht, sie zu verschleiern. Ich habe Staatstheater, Ministerium, Staatsanwaltschaft und LKA gefragt. Die ersten beiden beteuern, dass sie nicht gezahlt haben. Die letzten beiden wollen nichts dazu sagen. Und ein externer IT-Fachmann sagt, er habe die Zahlung auf Bitten des LKA geleistet, „weil der Staat nicht zahlen darf.“
Hier ein Geschenklink zu meinem Text:

https://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2026-01/digitale-erpressung-staatstheater-stuttgart-cyberkriminalitaet-prozess?freebie=a4cb3747
#cybersecurity

⚠️🚨 STOP Using Social Media Platform Hootsite

👉 They Partnered with ICE 👈

"A Hootsuite employee mentioned geolocation, saying the company could drill down to street-level data."
Note: There are Four articles in this post including a Bypass Paywall to the Globe and Mail

"While Hootsuite is based in Canada, it has hundreds of employees globally, including CEO Irina Novoselsky who is based in N.Y City. The company serves major brands like Adobe and Ikea and more .."

h/t @tod
#Luxembourg #Talkwalker
#Canada #USA #Resist #SocialMedia
#Hootsite #FB #TikTok #Threads #YouTube #Twitter #WhatsApp #Bluesky
#Pintrest #CyberSecurity #AI

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hootsuite-canada-vancouver-ice-social-media-contract/

You will also want to read this link👇

https://www.rswebsols.com/news/canadian-news-luxembourgs-ai-technology-for-social-media-monitoring-to-support-ice/

Bypass paywall : Globe and Mail Article https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hootsuite-canada-vancouver-ice-social-media-contract/

Link to Hootsite website: https://www.hootsuite.com/platform/integrations

From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown

https://www.kentik.com/blog/from-stealth-blackout-to-whitelisting-inside-the-iranian-shutdown/

#HackerNews #IranianShutdown #StealthBlackout #Whitelisting #Cybersecurity #InternetCensorship #NetworkInfrastructure

Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

https://www.jamf.com/blog/threat-actors-expand-abuse-of-visual-studio-code/

#HackerNews #ThreatActors #VisualStudioCode #CyberSecurity #CodeAbuse #TechNews

Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/01/16/internet-voting-is-insecure-and-should-not-be-used-in-public-elections/

#HackerNews #InternetVoting #Insecure #PublicElections #CyberSecurity #VotingIntegrity

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, and convert them to safe PDFs

https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone

#HackerNews #safePDFs #dangerzone #hackernews #cybersecurity #documentsecurity #PDFconversion

OpenAI API Logs: Unpatched data exfiltration

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/openai-api-logs-unpatched-data-exfiltration

#HackerNews #OpenAI #API #Logs #DataExfiltration #CyberSecurity #AI #Ethics #TechNews

The 25th Scrolls newsletter is out! Would have gotten it out last Friday but some holiday stuff got in the way. In any case, it’s here now! Check it out for the usual #indieweb, #fediverse and #infosec / #cybersecurity stuff.

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-01-21

Also worth mentioning... I usually publish these announcements from my @shellsharks@malici.ous.computer account but that GtS instance needs to be migrated at the moment so instead I'm posting from here 😁.

yolo-cage – AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets

https://github.com/borenstein/yolo-cage

#HackerNews #yolocage #AICoding #Agents #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #GitHub

The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.

These algorithms build a model of me based on my clicks from three years ago and then try to trap me in that loop forever. They show me music they think I'll like, and news they think I'll engage with, and videos they think will enrage me enough to keep me hooked to their platforms. They are actively trying to flatten my personality into something easy to monetize.

As most people I've seen say out loud, "Privacy as a concept is way beyond hiding secrets. A part of it also means preserving your capacity to change. To be surprised. To be inconsistent."

If I could tell every human one thing, it would be to actively refuse to be a predictable data point. Mess up their metrics. In whatever way you are capable of.

#socialmedia #algorithmicbias #privacy #dataprivacy #quotes #foss #facebook #linkedin #llm #noai #enshittification #reading #books #baking #art #philosophy #adhd #depression #cybersecurity

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/ireland_wants_to_give_police/

#HackerNews #Ireland #spyware #police #encrypted #messages #law #enforcement #cybersecurity

The 25th Scrolls newsletter is out! Would have gotten it out last Friday but some holiday stuff got in the way. In any case, it’s here now! Check it out for the usual #indieweb, #fediverse and #infosec / #cybersecurity stuff.

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-01-21

Also worth mentioning... I usually publish these announcements from my @shellsharks@malici.ous.computer account but that GtS instance needs to be migrated at the moment so instead I'm posting from here 😁.