This month in security with Tony Anscombe – August 2025 edition
From Meta shutting down millions of WhatsApp accounts linked to scam centers all the way to attacks at water facilities in Europe, August 2025 saw…
Month: August 2025
The Link Between Free Will and LLM Denial
I think a hidden tendency towards a belief in Libertarian free will is at the root of people’s opinion that LLMs aren’t capable of reasoning.…
UL NO. 446: AI Ecosystem Components, MS 0-Days, Iranian Campaign Hacks…
SECURITY | AI | MEANING :: Unsupervised Learning is a stream of original ideas, story analysis, tooling, and mental models designed to help humans lead…
The 4 Components of Top AI Model Ecosystems
Table of Contents I have been thinking a lot about the competition between OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google for who has the best pinnacle AI…
US targets North Korean IT worker army with new sanctions
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two individuals and two companies associated with North Korean IT worker schemes that operate at the…
World Model + Next Token Prediction = Answer Prediction
Table of Contents A new way to explain LLM-based AI Thanks to Eliezer Yudkowsky, I just found my new favorite way to explain LLMs—and why…
Google warns Salesloft breach impacted some Workspace accounts
Google now reports that the Salesloft Drift breach is larger than initially thought, warning that attackers also used stolen OAuth tokens to access a small…
The End of Work | Daniel Miessler
The feeling If you’re like me, you’ve had this strange, uneasy feeling about the job market for a few years now. It’s like a splinter…
UTG-Q-1000 Group Weaponizing Subsidy Schemes to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data
The emergence of sophisticated cybercriminal organizations continues to pose significant threats to individuals and institutions worldwide, with the UTG-Q-1000 group representing one of the most…
Farmers Insurance Breach Exposes Data of 1.1 Million Customers via Salesforce Compromise
Farmers Insurance has disclosed a data breach stemming from unauthorized access to a third-party vendor’s database, potentially compromising the personal information of approximately 1.1 million…
UL NO. 447: Sam Curry on Bug Bounty Careers, Slack Data Exfil, The Work Lie
SECURITY | AI | MEANING :: Unsupervised Learning is a stream of original ideas, story analysis, tooling, and mental models designed to help humans lead…
Hackers Attempted to Misuse Claude AI to Launch Cyber Attacks
Anthropic has thwarted multiple sophisticated attempts by cybercriminals to misuse its Claude AI platform, according to a newly released Threat Intelligence report. Despite layered safeguards…