Michael Loadenthal

Fake LastPass support email threads try to steal vault passwords Password management software provider LastPass is warning users of a phishing campaign targeting its users with fake unauthorized account access alerts.

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Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is stil...

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How Deepfakes and Injection Attacks Are Breaking Identity Verification Deepfakes and injection attacks are targeting identity verification moments, from onboarding to account recovery. Incode explains why enterprises must validate the full session—media, device integrity...

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How a Broadly Defined Counterterrorism Statute Could Be Abused 18 U.S.C. § 2339A doesn’t require proof of membership or terrorist intent, and the policy framework around it outweighs any single verdict.

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Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.

This is a press freedom issue.

Here’s what happened:

🧵 Today’s news: Proton turned over payment info for a Stop Cop City account. Not good — it's state repression in action.

Controversial opinion: We don't think this means all activists should abandon Proton for docs/email.

It depends on your threat model. Let's explore.

(Long thread incoming 👇)

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

Never confuse security with anonymity.

Encryption does NOT make a user invisible, only opaque.

“Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with…Stop Cop City”

'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts hit IP cameras : Attack infrastructure attributed to 'several Iran-nexus threat actors'

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How Will Cyber Warfare Shape the U.S.-Israel Conflict with Iran? The U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran were accompanied by cyber operations targeting Iranian apps, news sites, and government services. Iran will retaliate, and cyberspace is likely where that response wil...

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149 Hacktivist DDoS Attacks Hit 110 Organizations in 16 Countries After Middle East Conflict 149 hacktivist attacks hit 110 organizations across 16 countries after Middle East conflict, targeting governments, infrastructure, & telecom sectors.

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Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking Like many other features and systems in modern cars, tire pressure sensors leak sensitive data that can be abused by threat actors.

Security researchers have revealed that signals from tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMSs), required in U.S. cars since 2007, can be used to track vehicles from 40-50 meters away using devices costing $100.

TPMSs send a unique sensor identifier that never changes during the lifetime of the tire.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.

“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

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I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

Apple Says iPhone and iPad Are Approved to Handle Some Classified Data No assembly required.

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Spyware makers sentenced to prison in Greece for wiretapping politicians and journalists | TechCrunch Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa executives were tried for their role in a scandal dubbed "Greek Watergate," which dates back to 2022.

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Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely ...

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Journalism under attack: Predator spyware in Angola - Amnesty International Security Lab A new investigation by the Security Lab uncovers the first forensically confirmed case of the Predator spyware being used to target civil society in Angola.

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Not Safe for Politics: Cellebrite Used on Kenyan Activist and Politician Boniface Mwangi - The Citizen Lab Following the widely-condemned arrest in July 2025 of prominent Kenyan opposition voice Boniface Mwangi, the Citizen Lab analyzed artefacts from devices seized during the arrest. We found that Cellebr...

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This tracked with my understanding of this as a non-problem.

Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant He was observing after Alex Pretti's killing. Feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.

“They took my cell phone and cloned it. They actually told me they did that.”

Fake AI Chrome extensions with 300K users steal credentials, emails A set of 30 malicious Chrome extensions that have been installed by more than 300,000 users are masquerading as AI assistants to steal credentials, email content, and browsing information.

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Apple fixes zero-day flaw used in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks Apple has released security updates to fix a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack" targeting specific individuals.

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KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

ICE observer says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face Global Entry and PreCheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

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State actor targets 155 countries in 'Shadow Campaigns' espionage op A new state-aligned cyberespionage threat group tracked as TGR-STA-1030/UNC6619, has conducted a global-scale operation dubbed the "Shadow Campaigns," where it targeted government infrastructure in 15...

“A state-sponsored threat group has compromised dozens of networks of government and critical infrastructure entities in 37 countries in global-scale operations dubbed 'Shadow Campaigns'.”

Seems like the discourse has breached containment of its popping off in pro wrestling events…no?

ICE Watch Digital Security | Digital Security Checklists for Activists Digital security checklist for anyone doing ICE watch, rapid response foot patrols, or accompaniment

🌱🌱🌱🌱 New checklist: ICE Watch Digital security. For anyone working to hold ICE accountable through filming, foot patrols, adopt-a-corner, or rapid response.

→ activistchecklist.org/ice

Designed with a lot of feedback from folks on the frontlines (Minneapolis and elsewhere).

Minneapolis duo details their ICE detention, including pressure to rat on protest organizers Two Minneapolis friends who have been monitoring immigration officers’ actions during the Trump administration’s latest crackdown say they were detained without charge for several hours in distressing...

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Quote: "DHS investigators took him to another room and offered him money or legal protection for any family members who might be in the country illegally in exchange for giving up the names of protest organizers or neighbors who don’t have legal immigration status."