Regarding all these reports of "Scattered Spider"? hacking Aflac, ask yourselves this quesion;

"Is it them? Or is it another group using their TTP's?"

Image below is of rolled up members. Since then, the telegram channel imploded and went offline. So, have some of the old players who weren't nabbed, burn through all their ill gotten gains and are at it again on another telegram channel?

So far, a lot of reporting, very little intel that is backstopped.

Do better CTI sales firms.

Ubuntu is now allowing users to disable security mitigations Intel has baked into its GPU components. People are claiming the setting provides up to a 20% boost in performance. I'm still trying to understand more about the mitigations, but they appear to involve defending against Spectre-based attacks. Is this wise? On the one hand, I'm not aware of a single Spectre-based attack in the wild. On the other hand, you're leaving yourself potentially exposed. Thoughts

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Disable-Intel-Gfx-Security-20p

Company-wide emails in the hardware security lab:

• I am once again reminding you that just because you can pick a lock doesn’t mean you may
• we definitely own like 17 logic analyzers and yet they’re all missing
• urgent: who is 3D printing all these ominous skulls?
• using million dollar prototype circuit boards as a frisbee does not count as “stress testing”