A Ransomware Negotiator Was Working for a Ransomware Gang

A batch of Bruce Schneier blog posts covering multiple high-impact security topics: a ransomware negotiator pled guilty to secretly working for a ransomware gang (insider threat/double agent); researchers reverse-engineered Fast16, a likely US state-sponsored malware pre-dating Stuxnet that silently manipulates high-precision computations to cause physical/operational failures; Anthropic’s Claude Mythos/Opus work found and weaponized hundreds of latent software vulnerabilities (Firefox fixes 271 issues), prompting restricted release and major implications for automated vulnerability discovery;