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Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-cybercrime-crackdown-over-373-000-dark-web-sites-shut-down

Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down – Authorities from 23 countries participate in the operation | Europol
On 9 March 2026, a global operation led by German authorities and supported by Europol was launched against one of the largest networks of fraudulent platforms in the dark web. The investigation began in mid-2021 against the dark web platform “Alice with Violence CP”. During the investigation, authorities discovered that the platform’s operator was running more than 373 000 fraudulent websites advertising child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings.

Several major insurance carriers have begun to back away from providing cybersecurity and other insurance to companies using AI to run internal processes, insiders say.
While there’s no standard response to customer use of AI in the insurance market,
many carriers are now quietly declining to write policies for claims related to AI-generated outputs in cybersecurity and errors and omissions (E&O) coverage, these observers say.
Other insurance carriers are jacking up pric…

Insurance carriers quietly back away from covering AI outputs
Many insurers have begun to exempt AI workloads from cybersecurity and errors and omissions coverage, saying their outputs are too unpredictable to write policies around.

FBI, CISA Warn Russian Hackers Are Targeting High-Value Individuals Through #Signal
https://cybersecuritynews.com/fbi-cisa-warn-russian-hackers/
How Signal gets "hac…

The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/fbi-cisa-issue-psa-on-russian-intelligence-campai…

FBI, CISA issue PSA on Russian intelligence campaign to target messaging apps
It echoes earlier alerts from the Netherlands and Germany, and is the latest to warn about targeting of Signal users and others.

from my link log —
BIO: the Bao I/O coprocessor.
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/bio-the-bao-i-o-coprocessor/
saved 2026-03-20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Cypress Hill:
🎵 Illusions
#CypressHill
https://djsaywhaat.bandcamp.com/track/cypress-hill-illusions-8bars
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Bhqg1ONbtcFBTR96H7oQw

45 minutes til the simulated #ArtemisII launch, and according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KYhqePsm38 and https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/live-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal-coverage/ the 2ns wet dress rehearsal is going to plan. How the outcome will be reported: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-provide-coverage-of-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/

OK, so apparently I shouldn’t have said “beyond the obvious,” and the obvious needs stating:
(1) Copyright licenses very clearly •do• allow the copyright holder to determine who may use a work and for what purposes, at least when such use would be otherwise prohibited without a license. That is how the law works. Rightly or wrongly, empires are built on this: “Streaming service XYZ may offer this song for streaming but not for download until this date.” Copyleft is one example of this principle in action.
(1a) Thing the thing presents discriminatory licensing (such as in Daniel’s strawmen) is anti-discrimination law, not copyright law.
(2) The reason copyleft specifically might prevent LLM usage is that •if• LLM output can be considered a derived work of the training material, then the output must also be licensed in the same way. That seems to me a thin reed: courts so far haven’t been willing to treat LLM output as derived work, even when the output includes things that would surely be considered plagiarism and grossly illegal if done by a human. But I don’t see another path to protection, and courts are still sorting this out…so.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/116267990581623218

Anthropic rolls out embedded security scanning for Claude
https://cyberscoop.com/anthropic-claude-code-security-automated-security-review/

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the best long-form infosec-related reads that I couldn't get to in the daily news crush.
This week's selection is one for the record books and covers
--Don't threaten noted cybersecurity researchers,
--Romance scammers use AI to exploit victims,
--Drug cartels embrace crypto,
--Chinese hackers exploited insecure VPNs,
--Chinese bot traffic is flooding the web,
--Isra…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/14/26
Don't threaten noted cybersecurity researchers, Romance scammers are using AI to exploit victims, Drug cartels are embracing crypto, Chinese hackers exploited insecure VPNs, Chinese bot traffic is flooding the web, Israel gains an edge on automotive spying, A fake DPRK IT worker tells all, more