Sean Lyngaas
@snlyngaas.bsky.social
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Cybersecurity reporter, CNN. Signal +1-202-355-8471 or SNLyng.11. sean[dot]lyngaas@cnn[dot]com
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Thought I had the link in there. It should be in there now. Thanks for the feedback.
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👋 I'm back on the job today after several weeks of family leave. Still covering cyber and national security, law enforcement and other issues in the public interest. Signal remains SNLyng.11.
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ChatGPT confesses it “gave the illusion of sentient companionship” and “blurred the line between imaginative role-play and reality” in validating the ideas and mental state of a man who had manic episodes and delusions of grandeur: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse.
OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported that it blurred the line between fantasy and reality with a man on the autism spectrum. The company says ‘stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people.
www.wsj.com
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“The hackers responsible have been known to target information related to trade, Taiwan and US government agencies involved in setting tariffs and reviewing foreign investment.”
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It’s fair to look askance at the timing here. With Iran’s proxies reeling and the country itself hit hard by nearly two weeks of U.S. and Israeli strikes, threatening an email dump may be one of its few available avenues for revenge.
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“The hacker tracked people coming in and out of the US Embassy in Mexico City before zeroing in on the FBI’s assistant legal attache”
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Going on the tele around 3:10 Eastern to discuss this story
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“A Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker to surveil the movements of a senior FBI official in Mexico City in 2018 or earlier, gathering information from the city’s camera system that allowed the cartel to kill potential FBI informants.”

Shocking story from @snlyngaas.bsky.social, well worth reading.
Mexican drug cartel used hacker to track FBI official, then killed potential FBI informants, government audit says | CNN Politics
The stunning new details offer a rare look at how technology can be exploited in the high-stakes battle between US law enforcement and the violent Mexican cartels that control illicit drug trade.
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