Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru
2026-03-04T21:41:05Z•c60631cbb570ae5990ed49f929d45e61c21c474cc60130e7c6b70d5549776c71
account-recoveryai-agentscensorshipdata-poisoningdeveloper-phishingflockinternet-shutdowniranllm-weaknessmalicious-aimalwaremisinformationnational-information-networknorth-koreapassword-generationpassword-managersringsupply-chain-surveillancetraining-data-poisoning
What happened
Collection of Bruce Schneier blog posts (Feb 2026) highlighting multiple active and emerging security risks: Iran’s recent, unusually severe internet blackout and two-tiered National Information Network (risks to communications resilience, banking, and censorship evasion); novel phishing by North Korean actors posing as recruiters to deliver malware through coding-challenge workflows (targeting developers); research showing password managers (Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass) can be abused via account-recovery/group-sharing and server-side control to exfiltrate vaults; weaknesses in LLM-generated
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- schneier_blog
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- c60631cbb570ae5990ed49f929d45e61c21c474cc60130e7c6b70d5549776c71
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- 2026-03-04T21:41:05Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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