A Ransomware Negotiator Was Working for a Ransomware Gang
2026-05-03T19:23:48Z•e1105a3d412919e79eeb1bf5c57d94dd4c7e6b34e4b57001cb992380dcc667dd
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What happened
A set of security stories: a ransomware negotiator pleaded guilty to secretly working for a ransomware gang, illustrating insider/double-agent risk in incident response; researchers reverse-engineered Fast16, a likely US state-sponsored sabotage malware deployed against Iran years before Stuxnet; Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos model can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities (and collaboration with Mozilla helped identify 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox), raising major concerns about AI-enabled automated exploit discovery; forensic researchers showed the FBI could extract "lost
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