Jessica Beffa
@jbeffa.bsky.social
Dog, cat and kid mom. Head of ESET PR 😎💻👉 cyber, threat intelligence, APTs, cyber warfare, channel/IT, tech news, animal shenanigans
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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#ESETresearch discovered a new wave of the well-known North Korea-aligned Lazarus campaign Operation DreamJob, now targeting the drone industry.
welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese... 1/9
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October 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
#ESETresearch discovered a new wave of the well-known North Korea-aligned Lazarus campaign Operation DreamJob, now targeting the drone industry.
welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese... 1/9
welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese... 1/9
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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October 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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When you're a tree in autumn but you really want to be a paint shop colour swatch. 🍁
September 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When you're a tree in autumn but you really want to be a paint shop colour swatch. 🍁
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Tile location-finding tags, unlike Apple/Google tags, broadcast MAC address/unique ID unencrypted, letting stalkers, Tile or LE track people/items. Anti-theft feature also undoes anti-stalking feature - any tag in anti-theft mode is invisible to scans looking for stalkers. My story for @wired.com
Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say
A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.
www.wired.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tile location-finding tags, unlike Apple/Google tags, broadcast MAC address/unique ID unencrypted, letting stalkers, Tile or LE track people/items. Anti-theft feature also undoes anti-stalking feature - any tag in anti-theft mode is invisible to scans looking for stalkers. My story for @wired.com
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@lurabardley.bsky.social sees this for what it is www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Late-Night TV Isn’t Dying—It’s Being Murdered
And we’re not just talking about Jimmy Kimmel. In part one of a two-part series, nearly a dozen insiders explain how one of comedy’s oldest genres is being strangled—starting with the chilling effect ...
www.vanityfair.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@lurabardley.bsky.social sees this for what it is www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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Whether you should use a burner phone depends on your circumstances and the particular risks you face based on your work/activity, your country, your travel, etc. Here's a good primer for determining if and when you might need one, as well as when and how to use a burner phone if you decide you do
important to understand that it takes a lot of work and planning to aquire and use a true burner phone, but luckily you don’t need a full on burner phone in most situations to enhance your digital privacy www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone
Obtaining and using a true burner phone is hard—but not impossible. Here are the steps you need to take to protect your mobile communications based on the risks you face.
www.wired.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Whether you should use a burner phone depends on your circumstances and the particular risks you face based on your work/activity, your country, your travel, etc. Here's a good primer for determining if and when you might need one, as well as when and how to use a burner phone if you decide you do
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Researchers found multiple hacking campaigns using a sample of malware that monitors the victim's browser for web addresses that look like porn, takes simultaneous browser screenshots and photos of the victim with the webcam, then sends to the hacker for sextortion. www.wired.com/story/steale...
Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn
A new specimen of “infostealer” malware offers a disturbing feature: It monitors a target's browser for NSFW content, then takes simultaneous screenshots and webcam photos of the victim.
www.wired.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Researchers found multiple hacking campaigns using a sample of malware that monitors the victim's browser for web addresses that look like porn, takes simultaneous browser screenshots and photos of the victim with the webcam, then sends to the hacker for sextortion. www.wired.com/story/steale...
Big news from the team at @esetresearch.bsky.social today. Proud of my colleagues for discovering the first known AI-powered ransomware #PromptLock: 👀🔎💻
#ESETResearch has discovered the first known AI-powered ransomware, which we named #PromptLock. The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly, which it then executes 1/7
August 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Big news from the team at @esetresearch.bsky.social today. Proud of my colleagues for discovering the first known AI-powered ransomware #PromptLock: 👀🔎💻
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Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
August 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
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Damn. And I was just learning yesterday about the nightmare end of the Colorado Springs Independent, which had held onto its investigative chops.
Heartbreaking, especially in light of the recent mess here: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/boulder-we...
Boulder Weekly implodes. 'The newsroom is gone,' fired editor says. Paper's future uncertain
The news behind the news in Colorado
coloradomedia.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Damn. And I was just learning yesterday about the nightmare end of the Colorado Springs Independent, which had held onto its investigative chops.
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US Senator Jon Ossoff has launched an investigation into the abuse of women and children in US immigration detention, citing among other reports, the WIRED story below: www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
August 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
US Senator Jon Ossoff has launched an investigation into the abuse of women and children in US immigration detention, citing among other reports, the WIRED story below: www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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Cameron doesn't want to destroy generative AI, but he does realize that it is an existential problem for the movie industry to solve.
James Cameron Wants to Remind You That Generative AI Is a Threat
Cameron doesn't want to destroy generative AI, but he does realize that it is an existential problem for the movie industry to solve.
gizmodo.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Cameron doesn't want to destroy generative AI, but he does realize that it is an existential problem for the movie industry to solve.
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A proud girl dad has written a poem for the haters who don’t like painted nails on men.
He’s marvelous!! Please listen to him and share his beautiful message. 💕
He’s marvelous!! Please listen to him and share his beautiful message. 💕
August 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A proud girl dad has written a poem for the haters who don’t like painted nails on men.
He’s marvelous!! Please listen to him and share his beautiful message. 💕
He’s marvelous!! Please listen to him and share his beautiful message. 💕
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"Those best positioned [in Hungary] to uphold democratic norms chose the comfort of an illusion over the courage of action. They were and are invisible by choice.... The lesson of Hungary is this: We cannot claim to care about democracy only when it costs nothing."
July 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Those best positioned [in Hungary] to uphold democratic norms chose the comfort of an illusion over the courage of action. They were and are invisible by choice.... The lesson of Hungary is this: We cannot claim to care about democracy only when it costs nothing."
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It's neat to say that AI will kill entry level SOC analyst jobs, but if you're a CISO and really believe that, I have to ask where you think you'll get your next generation of "not entry level" SOC analysts from.
July 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's neat to say that AI will kill entry level SOC analyst jobs, but if you're a CISO and really believe that, I have to ask where you think you'll get your next generation of "not entry level" SOC analysts from.
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Travelling soon? Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
www.wired.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Travelling soon? Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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I'm going to go on a limb and say that no one cares if policymakers ask dumb questions about tech. We'd actually love if they did that. The problem is they seldom ask and then make policy decisions without understanding the tech or believing they should ask first. Or they ask the wrong people.
This is right - a great piece from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social
It would make for better policymaking if politicians understood tech better. For that to happen they have to be allowed to ask basic questions and not be mocked for it, fun though that can be
www.ft.com/content/36eb...
It would make for better policymaking if politicians understood tech better. For that to happen they have to be allowed to ask basic questions and not be mocked for it, fun though that can be
www.ft.com/content/36eb...
Why politicians need to get over their tech insecurity
Those in the political sphere should not be ridiculed for asking important questions — even if they do lack technical expertise
www.ft.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I'm going to go on a limb and say that no one cares if policymakers ask dumb questions about tech. We'd actually love if they did that. The problem is they seldom ask and then make policy decisions without understanding the tech or believing they should ask first. Or they ask the wrong people.
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"flight manifests for 3 legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from the United States on those flights, 404 Media has learned."
Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.
www.404media.co
July 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"flight manifests for 3 legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from the United States on those flights, 404 Media has learned."
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We're deporting literal heroes
A man who helped save a 9-year-old during a shark attack in Florida last month is now facing deportation after being taken into custody for driving without a license.
July 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We're deporting literal heroes
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How did a streetwear-loving kid from Chicago become Louis Vuitton's artistic director in Paris? Critic Robin Givhan explores the rise of Virgil Abloh in her new book, Make It Ours.
From streetwear to luxury fashion: How Virgil Abloh reshaped an industry
How did a streetwear-loving kid from Chicago become Louis Vuitton's artistic director in Paris? Critic Robin Givhan explores the rise of Virgil Abloh in her new book, Make It Ours.
n.pr
June 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
How did a streetwear-loving kid from Chicago become Louis Vuitton's artistic director in Paris? Critic Robin Givhan explores the rise of Virgil Abloh in her new book, Make It Ours.