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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 23h

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.

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North Korea's fake IT worker program is a goldmine, The Com group called Purgatory is creating swatting nightmares, How age verification laws change user behavior, What happens when the internet shuts...

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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 6h

SNL pays tribute to Diane Keaton

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Ms T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 4h

Sunday

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Major US online retailers remove listings for millions of prohibited Chinese electronics
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Major US online retailers remove listings for millions of prohibited Chinese electronics

The items are banned equipment or unauthorized by the FCC, its chairman said.

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Spain dismantles “GXC Team” cybercrime syndicate, arrests leader
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Spain dismantles “GXC Team” cybercrime syndicate, arrests leader

Spanish Guardia Civil have dismantled the "GXC Team" cybercrime syndicate and arrested its alleged leader, a 25-year-old Brazilian known as "GoogleXcoder."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 1h

OMFG

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
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‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 1h

Hackers leak Qantas data containing 5 million customer records after ransom deadline passes
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Hackers leak Qantas data containing 5 million customer records after ransom deadline passes

Hacker collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters demanded payment in return for preventing the stolen data of nearly 40 companies from being shared

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 17h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 3h

Here’s the legal filing - the one with the bad Microsoft Word TOC links. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

‘£850 to skip the queue’: how scammers are exploiting driving test delays

Criminals claim there are ways to get a licence without exams. Accepting puts you at risk of identity theft and even prison

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 4h

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According to a legal filing, 176 people were fired from CISA on Friday.

Trump administration begins laying off more than 4,000 federal workers amid government shutdown, court filing shows

Affected agencies include the departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy and Health and Human Services, among others, according to a Justice Department filing.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

1Password founders sold a $75M stake as part of a $100M secondary sale, valuing the company at $6.8B, the same valuation as its $620M Series C in January 2022 (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 6h

Feds on the roof just threw teargas within a couple feet of me. Loud explosion. They seemingly threw it because a couple people were sitting on the little wall in front of the facility.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 10h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 8h

"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks."

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 9h

…really?

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 7h

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 8h

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 8h

repeating non-falsifiable claims undermines the entire premise of journalism

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 9h

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 11h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 6h

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 9h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Grandpa has again forgotten who was president on Jan 6, 2021. He was.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 1d

exsqueeze me?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 14h

Things don’t look good.