CyberFacts

A clean feed (and weekly digest) of noteworthy cybersecurity facts

The CyberFacts Feed

Update (Nov 2023): This has been a rough year and haven’t been able to keep up with this. I’m thinking about giving it another try. Maybe somewhere in 2024, maybe with another theme.


I’ve started to systematically keep an archive of my readings since early 2021. I enjoy staying up to date with what happens in this world and keep track of what others are doing, and I make an effort to get to the source to eliminate the noise and room for inaccuracies as much as possible. So I decided to start sharing the live RSS feed of what I read. As soon as I find something interesting, I skim through it, publish it here, and randomly trigger automated posts on my LinkedIn feed and Twitter CyberFactsIT.

CyberFacts Weekly

CyberFacts Weekly is a digest of the CyberFacts Feed, spiced up with some highlights, notes, thoughts, links. There are already many good cyber-security newsletters (e.g., tl;dr sec) or news analysis (e.g., by Daniel Miessler), so by no means I’m trying to compete with them. I’m doing this mostly for myself, so that I can keep an online archive of my favorite or noteworthy readings.


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Want to check out the past issues first? Browse the archive!


🔓 [CyberFacts Weekly - Issue 0x07] I Visited an Abandoned IBM Facility

FBI Portal Abused to Mass Email / Breached Robinhood Data for Sale / New Rowhammer-class Vulnerability / Backdooring Rust Crates

🔓 [CyberFacts Weekly - Issue 0x06] Notes from Black Hat Locknote

New Hacker-for-hire Group Discovered by Trend Micro / Vulns in Critical Network Protocol / Practical HTTP Header Smuggling / BusyBox Affected by 14 New Vulns / PS5 Unlock Keys Extracted / INTERPOL Hits Prolific Ransomware Ring / Flash Beams Reboot RPi2s / Pwn2Own Austin 2021

🔓 [CyberFacts Weekly - Issue 0x05] It's (Almost) the Season to be Jolly 🎅

Hiding Trojan Source Code via Unicode Tricks / CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Feed / CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses / How Signal Responds to Law Enforcement Search Warrants / Exchange Vuln. Exploited by Babuk Ransomware Campaign

🔓 [CyberFacts Weekly - Issue 0x04] Happy Halloween 🎃

EU Digital COVID Certification Issuers Exposed / 150ppl arrested in dark web drug bust / Conti ransom gang sells access to victims / Cracking WiFi at scale / DarkSide transfer $7M worth of BTCs / Mozilla removes add-ons using proxy API / Ransomware at San Carlo Italian chips maker / New Tesla forensics driving data can be acquired / Shrootless vulnerability can bypass macOS SIP

🔓 [CyberFacts Weekly - Issue 0x03] Twice the Content, New Workflow

Two SGX SDK vulns patched / Twitch leak not surprising / Abusing GitHub Actions / YouTube MP4 parsing vuln patched / Thingiverse leak (36GB) / 2.4 Tbps DDoS hit Azure customer / Proton bug bounty / Ransomware payments up 40% YoY / Trump's website defaced / Candy maker hit by ransomware / Abusing garage door openers / ATM PIN guessing

🔓 [CyberFacts Weekly - Issue 0x02] The Week of Massive Leaks

Twitch leak (128GB) / Telegraph DB exposed (10TB) / Full iOS 15 decompiled source code / FB/IG/WA disappeared from the Internet / New ESP-persistent UEFI bootkit found / LeakIX 2.0 vs. exposed services / Pandora Papers is the new Panama Papers / SMS-routing service compromised for years / Phrack #70 is out / Apache CVE-2021-41773 patched / SOS.dev pilot to secure OSS / Ransomware gang arrested in Ukraine

🔓 [CyberFacts Weekly - Issue 0x01] A Packed Week

Malware targeting gamers / VSCode extension with command injection / OWASP turns 20 / Chrome fixes an RCE / AirTags can carry XSS payload / PoC exploit for VMware CVE-2021-22005 / More Apple bug bounty drama / Android bankers / Bitcoin ATMs vulnerable to tampering / New SolarWinds details / When ransomware hits hospitals / Bug in ApplePay Express Mode with VISA / Threat actors posing as Amnesty

🔓 [CyberFacts Weekly - Issue 0x00] First Out

AlphaBay's founder is back / Donation sites abuse for card testing / Apple Tracking Transparency lets trackers track / AI can introduce vulnerabilities in code / Valid PEs that evade integrity checks / High-res satellite imagery as a service / BulletProofLink PAAS operation / How UAE spy program recruited an NSA hacker