Every week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers the best infosec-related long reads that we couldn't get to in the daily crush of news.

This week's selection covers

--How Israel turned Iran's vast camera network into a targeting tool,
--Project Maven and the gods of AI warfare,
--How cops can surveil you using your body's data,
--Liberal San Francisco is now ground zero for tech-driven surveillance,
--Prompt optimizations are security flaws

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https://www.metacurity.com/best-infosec-related-long-reads-for-the-week-of-3-21-26/

Not sure how I missed this crazy story...

Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, invite-only CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse
https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/anthropic-leaked-unreleased-model-exclusive-event-security-issues-cybersecurity-unsecured-data-store/

About a week ago, I wrote a piece on how CISOs are going to have a hard time figuring out where Anthropic is across their enterprises if they have to deal with the Pentagon's ban of the AI technology.

Turns out, a district court judge just gave companies that do business with the DoD or other federal agencies more time to figure out their AI supply chain situation by issuing a preliminary injunction against the Anthropic ban.

Anthropic wins reprieve against US DoD ban, buying time for contractors to assess AI supply chains
https://www.cio.com/article/4151148/anthropic-wins-reprieve-against-us-dod-ban-buying-time-for-contractors-to-assess-ai-supply-chains.html

And ICYMI, here's my earlier piece https://www.csoonline.com/article/4147298/anthropic-ban-heralds-new-era-of-supply-chain-risk-with-no-clear-playbook.html

This week has been a rush to the head for the cybersecurity world, so check out Metacurity before you leave for the weekend to catch up on the critical developments you should know, including

--UK sanctions scam-supporting, $20B crypto marketplace Xinbi Guarantee,
--Judge issues preliminary injunction against DoD's Anthropic ban,
--EU rejects extension that would allow CSAM scanning,
--Drone maker TechEx claims SBU wiretapped its chief engineer,
--Dutch court orders Musk's Grok to stop producing nudified images,
--EC probes breach of its AWS infrastructure,
--Dutch national police report limited breach,
--Dutch football club Ajax Amsterdam reports breach,
--Top ticketing and access control vendor to museums was hit by ransomware,
--Luxembourg public sector devices were found to be infected with malware,
--TeamPCP said it used AI to breach Trivy,
--Hong Kong police can now demand passwords,
--Nova Scotia Power cyber incident caused by a pop-up on a fake website,
--Red Menshen has deployed stealthy “sleeper cell” malware inside telecom networks,
--ODNI is developing AI and cyber framework,
--Trump admin is prioritizing the adoption of AI in cyber defense,
--'Flaming China' claims credit for China's National Supercomputer Center hack,
--DPRK hackers are offering $70k/month to people willing to be fronts,
--Apple provided cops with the email address of 'Hide My Email' user
https://www.metacurity.com/uk-sanctions-scam-supporting-20b-crypto-marketplace-xinbi-guarantee/