This is no joke -- today's Metacurity is packed with the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including

--N. Korean hackers were behind malicious versions of Axios,
--Threat actors compromised Cisco with stolen creds from Trivy attack,
--Anthropic leaked part of Claude's source code,
--Apple alters its upgrade-or-stay vulnerable method,
--Recruiting startup Mecor hit by incident linked to LiteLLM attack,
--Vim and GNU Emacs text editors' flaws surfaced by Claude prompts,
--AI agents built on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform can be compromised,
--80% of UK manufacturers have been hit with a cyberattack,
--India warns of Android God Mode malware,
--Mamdani reversed a 2023 ban on TikTok,
--Water treatment plant in Minot, ND hit by ransomware,
--FBI warns of Chinese mobile applications,
--Tenex.ai raises $250m in Series B,
--Linx Security raises $50m in Series B,
--depthfirst raises $80m in Series B,
--Schleswig-Holstein is ejecting US tech giants,
--Perplexity AI accused of sharing user data with Meta and Google
https://www.metacurity.com/n-korean-hackers-were-behind-malicious-versions-of-axios/

Folks to me a decade ago: Aral, what’s all this tinfoil-hat stuff about Silicon Valley? You’re being alarmist! What’s the worst that could happen? Etc., etc.

Meanwhile, a Silicon Valley billionaire:

> Some people are like “oh, but isn’t it terrible to celebrate the power of weapons?” and I say, you know what, societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. I think that it’s reasonable for philosophers to degrade those people and whine about how they’re sick in the head. But society needs them. Even if I’m sick in the head. We need people who are willing to fight for our country—and I’m not doing that directly, my life’s not on the line. But you need people like me who are sick in that way and don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence

https://web.archive.org/web/20260401060004/https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/palmer-luckey-is-our-most-terrifyingly-deranged-billionaire

#SiliconValley #deathCult #BigTech #capitalism #fascism #PalmerLuckey