A Ransomware Negotiator Was Working for a Ransomware Gang
2026-05-01T19:23:44Z•e9c23728b503f36c4c04ad97b9e805fc2d6ea9c866561a9ee5a1e93b82191420
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What happened
A batch of Schneier blog posts highlights multiple high-risk developments: an admitted double-agent ransomware negotiator undermining trust in incident response, and Fast16—a likely US state-sponsored malware—used to silently corrupt high-precision simulations years before Stuxnet. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and related AI-enabled tooling have autonomously found and can weaponize large numbers of software vulnerabilities (Mozilla fixed 271 issues in Firefox after AI scans), raising systemic risk of automated exploit generation. Other notable items: FBI forensic recovery of deleted Signa
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