Hook, line, and deep fake

Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion For 1 Billion Users—Attacks Up 200% (Swathi)

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/13/microsoft-confirms-password-deletion-for-1-billion-users-attacks-up-200/

Microsoft lessons learned red-teaming AI (Travis)

• https://airedteamwhitepapers.blob.core.windows.net/lessonswhitepaper/MS_AIRT_Lessons_eBook.pdf

AI-supported spear phishing fools more than 50% of targets Swathi

• https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/01/ai-supported-spear-phishing-fools-more-than-50-of-targets

Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting Cursor.com (Swathi)

• https://sourcecodered.com/snyk-malicious-npm-package/

President Trump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison (Will)

• https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/president-trump-pardons-silk-road.html?m=1

The Security Canary Maturity Model (Will)

• https://tracebit.com/blog/the-security-canary-maturity-model

Brad Pitt deepfake scam (Travis)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgnz8rw1xgo (shout out Daniel Miessler)