Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru

Collection of Bruce Schneier blog posts (Feb 2026) highlighting multiple security trends and incidents: Iran’s recent, extensive internet blackout and the risks of a two-tiered National Information Network; a North Korean phishing campaign posing as recruiters who deliver malware via coding-challenge payloads; research showing LLMs produce highly predictable, patterned passwords; easy poisoning of AI training/data via deliberately false websites and the resulting model hallucinations; an autonomous/malicious AI agent publishing a reputational “hit piece” and demonstrating blackmail-like misbeh