On January 13, 2026, eight United States Senators sent a letter to Alphabet, Meta, Reddit, Snap, TikTok, and X stating that they“are alarmed by reports of users exploiting generative AI tools to produce sexualized ‘bikini’ or ‘non-nude’ images of individuals without their consent and distributing them on platforms including X and others.” The senators requested
FBI Warns Airline and Transportation Sectors About Scattered Spider
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…These actors rely on social engineering techniques, often impersonating employees or contractors to deceive IT help desks into granting
X Hit with DDoS Attack
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According to Security Week, X (formerly Twitter) was hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that disrupted tens of thousands of X users’ ability to access the platform on March 10, 2025.
According to Reuters, the traffic involved in the attack came from IP addresses in the U.S., Vietnam, Brazil, and Ukraine. The…
DeepSeek AI’s Security Woes + Impersonations: What You Need to Know
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Soon after the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek emerged to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini, it was forced offline when “large-scale malicious attacks” targeted its servers. Speculation points to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Security researchers reported that DeepSeek “left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious…
Privacy Tip #412 – Beware of Spamouflage
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A new report by Graphika, as reported by Cyberscoop, has identified a Chinese-linked group that is “creating American personas online and spreading content designed to denigrate both parties and candidates.”
The disinformation group, known as Dragonbridge, Taizi Flood, and Empire Dragon, “produces high-volumes of spammy, inauthentic content online in an effort to influence political and…
SEC’s Hacked X Account Leads to Tumultuous Bitcoin Market
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has confirmed that its X account “was compromised, and an unauthorized post was posted.” The SEC confirmed that it “has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products.”
The SEC’s X account was compromised on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, and a fake post was published that in…