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You Bought a Screen, LG Installed a Microphone That Never Sleeps Feature Image

You Bought a Screen, LG Installed a Microphone That Never Sleeps

A $70k investigation found LG OLED TVs capturing clear microphone audio in standby, storing it even with the ethernet unplugged, and mapping every device and wifi network around them. The mic cannot be turned off at the hardware level. And LG's denial is carefully worded around one specific phrase.

Four Dollars Is All the AI Costs to Break Into Your Company Feature Image

Four Dollars Is All the AI Costs to Break Into Your Company

An affiliate of The Gentlemen ran an automated AI pipeline that broke into 30-plus companies, stole 3.1TB, and wrote the ransom demands itself. The AI cost per victim was as little as 40 cents. That is not the whole operation, but it is the part that used to take a skilled human days.

A Human Set the Goal, AI Did the Breach in 10 Hours Feature Image

A Human Set the Goal, AI Did the Breach in 10 Hours

A ransomware operator used frontier AI to break into an enterprise network and seize root in under 10 hours, work normally taking a human red team two weeks. No zero-day, no novel malware, just known techniques at machine speed. The one thing stopping it was a control forcing a human to sign off.

Your ATM Was Encrypted, Until It Was Not Feature Image

Your ATM Was Encrypted, Until It Was Not

A researcher found nine ways to strip the encryption off some ATMs, including a fail state that mounts the disk in plaintext. The flaws are patched. The unsettling part is where else this software hides, buried in products across banking, healthcare, and government that may never know it was broken.

McKesson Was Breached by a Phone Call, Not a Zero-Day Feature Image

McKesson Was Breached by a Phone Call, Not a Zero-Day

ShinyHunters claims 284 million patient records stolen from McKesson, which moves a third of North America's prescriptions. Read that carefully: records, not patients. McKesson confirmed a breach, not the number. The healthcare data now sits behind a login a convincing voice can open.

PLUMP SPIDER Makes the Bank Rob Itself Feature Image

PLUMP SPIDER Makes the Bank Rob Itself

Most financial ecrime is theft. PLUMP SPIDER does something worse. This Brazil-based crew gets inside the bank's own software and pushes fraudulent transfers through the real payment rails, in a real customer's name, so the fraud looks exactly like a legitimate transaction.

You Never Chose the Company That Just Leaked Your Face Feature Image

You Never Chose the Company That Just Leaked Your Face

More than 153 million driver's license records are allegedly for sale on the dark web for US$100, traced to an identity verification vendor most victims never heard of. You cannot change your face or your date of birth. Lawmakers want to make this exact model mandatory to use the internet.

Your Car Got Hacked Because It Is a Computer Nobody Was Watching Feature Image

Your Car Got Hacked Because It Is a Computer Nobody Was Watching

The first known malware built for car dashboards did not go after your brakes. It hijacked the update button, turned the head unit into a botnet node, and rented out your car's internet connection for ad fraud. The car was never the point. The always-on computer inside it was.

Work Experience

Co-Founder

Praeryx

2024-Current

Director, Threat Intelligence Strategy, APJ & META

CrowdStrike

2019-2024

Senior Security Advisor

McAfee JP

2013-2019

Chief, Cyber Security

United States Forces Japan (USFJ)

2008-2013

Senior Systems Engineer

MTC Technologies

2005-2008

Co-Founder

deviantART

2000-2005

Security Operations Center Supervisor

CSC

2000-2005

Telecommunications & Cyber Security

United States Navy

1990-1999