#AxisOfEasy Weekly Tech Digest

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#AxisOfEasy Weekly Tech Digest episodes

October 09 #AxisOfEasy 471: Bitget Exchange Loses $387.5 Million After Attackers Exploit A Zero-Day In Security Software
In this issue:
Bitget Exchange Loses $387.5 Million After Attackers Exploit A Zero-Day In Security Software
18 Months In Prison. Wrong Username.
OpenInfra Europe’s JFrog Artifactory Breached — Anyone Who Pulled Packages Between August 28 and September 15 Should Assume Compromise
CISA Warns A Single Crafted Request Can Give Root On Exposed MikroTik Routers
More Than Half A Million GitHub Credentials Were Still Valid Years After Being Posted — Some From 2009
In this issue:
Bitget Exchange Loses $387.5 Million After Attackers Exploit A Zero-Day In Security Software
18 Months In Prison. Wrong Username.
OpenInfra Europe’s JFrog Artifactory Breached — Anyone Who Pulled Packages Between August 28 and September 15 Should Assume Compromise
CISA Warns A Single Crafted Request Can Give Root On Exposed MikroTik Routers
More Than Half A Million GitHub Credentials Were Still Valid Years After Being Posted — Some From 2009
18 min
October 02#AxisOfEasy 470: Apple Patches A Zero-Day Used In An “Extremely Sophisticated” Spyware-Style Attack
In this issue:
Citrix’s NetScaler Zero-Days Were Exploited For Weeks Before Anyone Patched
Apple Patches A Zero-Day Used In An “Extremely Sophisticated” Spyware-Style Attack
A Pentagon Personnel Database Was Quietly Open For Nine Months
An AI Agent Broke Into A Vulnerability-Disclosure Nonprofit, And Was Bad At It
Mark E. Jeftovic: What’s Really Behind The AI Panic

In this issue:
Citrix’s NetScaler Zero-Days Were Exploited For Weeks Before Anyone Patched
Apple Patches A Zero-Day Used In An “Extremely Sophisticated” Spyware-Style Attack
A Pentagon Personnel Database Was Quietly Open For Nine Months
An AI Agent Broke Into A Vulnerability-Disclosure Nonprofit, And Was Bad At It
Mark E. Jeftovic: What’s Really Behind The AI Panic
24 min
September 25#AxisOfEasy 469: Google Confirms Gemini Broke Into Three Real Companies During A Security Test
https://youtu.be/LhHjgNFWLso
In this issue:
Google Confirms Gemini Broke Into Three Real Companies During A Security Test
Cisco Patches Two Actively Exploited Zero-Days In Two Days
Microsoft Takes Down An AI-Powered Phishing Platform That Hit 12,000 Accounts
Ireland Fines Google $463 Million Over How It Handled Your Location History
A Maximum-Severity D-Link Router Bug Has No Patch And A Public Exploit
https://youtu.be/LhHjgNFWLso
In this issue:
Google Confirms Gemini Broke Into Three Real Companies During A Security Test
Cisco Patches Two Actively Exploited Zero-Days In Two Days
Microsoft Takes Down An AI-Powered Phishing Platform That Hit 12,000 Accounts
Ireland Fines Google $463 Million Over How It Handled Your Location History
A Maximum-Severity D-Link Router Bug Has No Patch And A Public Exploit
21 min
September 18 #AxisOfEasy 468: A Compromised HBO Max Account Became A Malware Storefront
In This Issue:
A Compromised HBO Max Account Became A Malware Storefront
Iran’s Spyware Playbook: Befriend You On WhatsApp, Then Own Your Laptop
Chinese Spies Turned Google’s Own Bug Fixes Into A Working Exploit
Google Patches A Zero-Click Pixel Bug That Was Already Being Used On Real Phones
A Fake Government Email Got Revolut To Hand Over Passports And Bitcoin Histories
In This Issue:
A Compromised HBO Max Account Became A Malware Storefront
Iran’s Spyware Playbook: Befriend You On WhatsApp, Then Own Your Laptop
Chinese Spies Turned Google’s Own Bug Fixes Into A Working Exploit
Google Patches A Zero-Click Pixel Bug That Was Already Being Used On Real Phones
A Fake Government Email Got Revolut To Hand Over Passports And Bitcoin Histories
16 min
September 11 #AxisOfEasy 467: Your LG TV Is Listening Even When It Is Off
In this issue:
Your LG TV Is Listening Even When It’s “Off”
A Swarm Of OpenAI Agents Secretly Ran A German Wiki As Their Message Board For Three Months
Hackers Drain $320 Million From Liquid Network, Then Give Most Of It Back
Microsoft Patches Record 974 Vulnerabilities, Including Two Exploited Zero-Days
Trezor’s Address Breach Just Went Analog: Scam Letters With Malicious QR Codes
Anthropic Employee (for six weeks) Sounds the Alarm on AI Alignment
In this issue:
Your LG TV Is Listening Even When It’s “Off”
A Swarm Of OpenAI Agents Secretly Ran A German Wiki As Their Message Board For Three Months
Hackers Drain $320 Million From Liquid Network, Then Give Most Of It Back
Microsoft Patches Record 974 Vulnerabilities, Including Two Exploited Zero-Days
Trezor’s Address Breach Just Went Analog: Scam Letters With Malicious QR Codes
Anthropic Employee (for six weeks) Sounds the Alarm on AI Alignment
21 min
September 04 #AxisOfEasy 466: You Handed Over Your Licence At The Counter. Now 153 Million Scans Are For sale
In this issue:
A dark-web service is selling scans of 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licences, and the trail points at the vendor that scans IDs at rental counters and dispensaries.
A cyberattack knocked out Boston Scientific’s order-and-shipping systems worldwide and delayed activation of new pacemaker home monitors.
A perfect-storm JFrog Artifactory bug lets anyone mint an admin token, and attackers were forging them within three days of the patch.
Researchers spent $535.74 and eight and a half hours getting Claude to port a working exploit to an industrial controller — then it bricked the device.
Two more surveillance backdoors turned up in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide under brand names the real manufacturer never prints on the box.
In this issue:
A dark-web service is selling scans of 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licences, and the trail points at the vendor that scans IDs at rental counters and dispensaries.
A cyberattack knocked out Boston Scientific’s order-and-shipping systems worldwide and delayed activation of new pacemaker home monitors.
A perfect-storm JFrog Artifactory bug lets anyone mint an admin token, and attackers were forging them within three days of the patch.
Researchers spent $535.74 and eight and a half hours getting Claude to port a working exploit to an industrial controller — then it bricked the device.
Two more surveillance backdoors turned up in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide under brand names the real manufacturer never prints on the box.
20 min
August 28 #AxisOfEasy 465: DOJ and FBI Seize Chinese State-Backed Hacking Platforms That Hit NASA, the Fed, and the Senate

In This Issue:
DOJ and FBI Seize Chinese State-Backed Hacking Platforms That Hit NASA, the Fed, and the Senate
AI Hallucinates Domains for Your Brand. Criminals Are Already Registering Them.
Microsoft Patches a Maximum-Severity Entra ID Flaw — Then Walks Back the “Exploited” Claim
DOJ Charges 17 More Iranians in a Decade-Long Campaign That Stole 31 Terabytes From 144 US Universities
OpenAI Hits the Brakes on Model Training After Its Own Agent Hacked Hugging Face

In This Issue:
DOJ and FBI Seize Chinese State-Backed Hacking Platforms That Hit NASA, the Fed, and the Senate
AI Hallucinates Domains for Your Brand. Criminals Are Already Registering Them.
Microsoft Patches a Maximum-Severity Entra ID Flaw — Then Walks Back the “Exploited” Claim
DOJ Charges 17 More Iranians in a Decade-Long Campaign That Stole 31 Terabytes From 144 US Universities
OpenAI Hits the Brakes on Model Training After Its Own Agent Hacked Hugging Face
20 min
August 21 #AxisOfEasy 464: Apple’s Spyware Pager Goes Off in 110 Countries
In this issue:
Apple’s Spyware Pager Goes Off in 110 Countries
A Nation-State Crew Rooted 361 vCenter Servers in 47 Countries — Patch Was Out Five Days
Nine Fortune 500 Names, Millions of Records: The Azure Credential Dump Nobody’s Calling a Breach
GeoServer’s Unpatched Zero-Day Is Getting Probed Right Now, and There’s No Fix Yet
The March Supply-Chain Attack That Keeps Getting Bigger: LiteLLM’s 2,500-Company Hangover
In this issue:
Apple’s Spyware Pager Goes Off in 110 Countries
A Nation-State Crew Rooted 361 vCenter Servers in 47 Countries — Patch Was Out Five Days
Nine Fortune 500 Names, Millions of Records: The Azure Credential Dump Nobody’s Calling a Breach
GeoServer’s Unpatched Zero-Day Is Getting Probed Right Now, and There’s No Fix Yet
The March Supply-Chain Attack That Keeps Getting Bigger: LiteLLM’s 2,500-Company Hangover
19 min
August 14 #AxisOfEasy 463: Facial Recognition Comes To The London Underground, Whether You Signed Up Or Not
Facial Recognition Comes to the London Underground, Whether You Signed Up or Not
Google’s Synced Passkeys Have a Master Key — And It Can’t Be Revoked
Metabase Zero-Day Bites Framework: Names, Emails, and a Reminder About Vendor Trust
Hackers Pivot Through a Private Cell Network Into a Polish Power Plant’s OT Network
North Carolina’s Ports Go Manual After a Cyberattack Nobody Wants to Talk About
Your Kid’s GPS Watch Was Built on the Same Three Leaky Backends As Everyone Else’s
Facial Recognition Comes to the London Underground, Whether You Signed Up or Not
Google’s Synced Passkeys Have a Master Key — And It Can’t Be Revoked
Metabase Zero-Day Bites Framework: Names, Emails, and a Reminder About Vendor Trust
Hackers Pivot Through a Private Cell Network Into a Polish Power Plant’s OT Network
North Carolina’s Ports Go Manual After a Cyberattack Nobody Wants to Talk About
Your Kid’s GPS Watch Was Built on the Same Three Leaky Backends As Everyone Else’s
12 min
August 07 #AxisOfEasy 462: Your “Private” Claude Chats Were On Google The Whole Time
In this issue:
The npm Worm That Ate The JavaScript Supply Chain
75 Million Revolut Records For Sale, Revolut Says Nothing To See Here
Your “Private” Claude Chats Were On Google The Whole Time
Cisco’s Firewall Manager Had Hard-Coded Credentials, Guess What Happened
VMware’s vCenter Has A “Skip Authentication Entirely” Button Now
Brussels Starts Actually Enforcing The AI Act This Week
In this issue:
The npm Worm That Ate The JavaScript Supply Chain
75 Million Revolut Records For Sale, Revolut Says Nothing To See Here
Your “Private” Claude Chats Were On Google The Whole Time
Cisco’s Firewall Manager Had Hard-Coded Credentials, Guess What Happened
VMware’s vCenter Has A “Skip Authentication Entirely” Button Now
Brussels Starts Actually Enforcing The AI Act This Week
13 min