Tootfinder

Just wow....."A hacker has breached Romania's cadastre agency and wiped the country's entire land registry database following a failed extortion attempt."
https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-regis…

Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database
In other news: Graykey maker sues former employee for leaking exploit; Hugging Face was hacked using AI; unauth RCE finally found in WordPress.

Random foind of the doy:
BritCSS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43122398

Hmmm...so three French travel websites were hacked over the weekend by a supposed white hat hacker who says they wanted to show how vulnerable France is to cyber attacks.
Gîtes de France among three booking websites to be hit by cyberattack
https://www.…

Gîtes de France cyberattack: 389,000 clients affected in France booking data breach
Gîtes de France is the latest travel site hit in a France cyberattack, with hackers accessing data linked to 389,000 clients. The breach is one of three booking website attacks affecting more than two million bookings over the weekend.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116771204183851634
Looks like @…’s post hit Hacker News. (And that W reinstated their GitHub account? …

Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay (The Hacker News)
https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/grafana-github-token-breach-led-to.html

Grafana GitHub Token Breach Led to Codebase Download and Extortion Attempt
Grafana disclosed an unauthorized party accessed its GitHub environment and downloaded its codebase via a token.

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116597708854695872
Funny to see his disciples repeating the same talking points on hacker news.
As if the status of limitation is just a “technicality” and not what the whole case is based on.

Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA on Hacker News
#management

A hacker group called Breach Boyz has been emailing local TV stations in Oklahoma with seemingly accurate PII, including the SSNs, of 30 inmates in the Rogers County jail, but authorities say there has been no breach.
https://ktul.com/news/local/mystery-deepens-ov…

Mystery deepens over data breach of inmate info
Ten days ago we reported about claims that a hacker group called Breach Boyz had gained information about inmates at the Rogers County jail, sending us an email

Botschafter einberufen - Österreich bestätigt Angriffe russischer Hacker #News #Nachrichten

¿Sabéis lo peor de esta captura de pantalla de Hacker news de un tipo diciendo que estš usando una IA para tutelar a su hijo de 5 años? Que no es un caso aislado. Hace semanas un compañero de curro me dijo muy convencido que usa una IA para que le diseñe y corrija deberes a su hijo.

Mittwoch: US-Verbot von Routern ausgeweitet, Teenager wegen Ransomware verhaftet
Ausbau von Router-Verbot Anklage gegen Hacker-Jüngling Signal zur Phishing-Kampagne Spiele mit eigenem Betriebssystem iPhone-Problem mit Microsoft-Mail

Mittwoch: US-Verbot von Routern ausgeweitet, Teenager wegen Ransomware verhaftet
Ausbau von Router-Verbot + Anklage gegen Hacker-Jüngling + Signal zur Phishing-Kampagne + Spiele mit eigenem Betriebssystem + iPhone-Problem mit Microsoft-Mail

«Die Hacker aus Teheran - Iran-Krieg könnte digital werden – und auch die Schweiz treffen:
Die Verhandlungen zwischen den USA und dem Iran werden kaum einen Einfluss auf den laufenden Cyberkrieg haben, so eine iranische Hackergruppe. Auch die Schweiz könnte davon betroffen sein.»
Der Cyberkrieg ist schon lange ein Vorgehen aller Seiten und doch wird dies von vielen nicht als solcher wahrgenommen.
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Iran-Krieg könnte digital werden – und auch die Schweiz treffen
Die Verhandlungen werden kaum einen Einfluss auf den laufenden Cyberkrieg haben, so eine iranische Hackergruppe.

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> They're gonna say that the future is all AI... until they get the bill.
Well said, KronisLV. Well said!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241363

The arrest of a teenage hacker has revealed that #Microsoft can track a Windows PC and its online activity through a “Global Device ID" that seems to have no easy opt-out, sparking fears about potential #surveillance.

from my link log —
QuickHeap: a fast priority queue.
https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/quickheap/
saved 2026-05-03 https://dotat.at/:/TWC…

«Hacker nutzen Support-Bot von Meta, um Instagram-Konten zu kapern:
Ein kritischer Fehler im KI-Support von Meta führte dazu, dass Angreifer fremde Instagram-Konten kapern konnten. Selbst das offizielle Archiv-Konto des Weißen Hauses unter Barack Obama war betroffen. […]»
Ein Argument mehr um Meta Produkte nicht zu nutzen. Was daran vorallem auffällt, ist dass das plumpen überreden von den "Hacker" der KI zum ausnutzen ausreicht.
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Hacker nutzen Support-Bot von Meta, um Instagram-Konten zu kapern
Ein kritischer Fehler im KI-Support von Meta führte dazu, dass Angreifer fremde Instagram-Konten kapern konnten. Selbst das offizielle Archiv-Konto des Weißen Hauses unter Barack Obama war betroffen. Der Konzern hat die Lücke mittlerweile geschlossen.

@… the Hacker News discussion is informative.
<https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin@billboard.bsd.cafe/116505870431…

Shawn Nunley helped put hacker-turned-consultant Kevin Mitnick in prison. Decades later, after they became good friends, Mitnick left Nunley enough money to buy a Porsche 911 GTS. (If anyone has Nunley's actual Reddit post telling this story, I can't find it.)
https://www.

This Man Was Gifted His Dream Car by the Notorious Hacker He Put in Prison
Shawn Nunley stopped Kevin Mitnick with a cassette recorder. Decades later, Mitnick left him enough to buy his dream Porsche 911 GTS.

On the weekend, when riding public transit, the automated announcement said “Doors will open on the right." (en français) and the 14-year-old started to argue “how can they even say the right? what if I'm facing backwards?!” so I explained that they always mean direction of travel, but continued to face his resistance.
It felt like when I used to participate in Hacker News discussions, and someone inevitably would try to reduce conventions to first principles.
This is HN…

Security firm Calif says it used OpenAI's Codex to discover HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS exploit affecting web servers like Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Microsoft IIS (The Hacker News)
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/new-http2-bomb-vulnerability-allows.html…

New HTTP/2 Bomb Vulnerability Allows Remote DoS on NGINX, Apache, IIS, Envoy & Cloudflare
HTTP/2 Bomb exploits HPACK and flow control; a single client can hold 32GB memory in 20 seconds, causing server outages.

Chompie in the spotlight! And she's right when it comes to bug hunting.
Champion ethical hacker warns AI tools like Mythos will make competing harder
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r2zjpryzro?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Top ethical hacker Chompie warns AI tools could put her out of business
Chompie, one of the world's tops ethical hackers, says AI like Claude Mythos will make it harder for people like her to compete.

Abhören, Viren bauen - Moskau bietet geheimes Spion-Studium an Uni an #News #Nachrichten

Countdown im Darknet - Hacker setzen Wiener Flughafen unter Druck #News #Nachrichten

So little time, so many cybersecurity developments to cover. Check out today's Metacurity for the most important infosec news stories today, including
--Frontier AI Beat: AI security becomes a geopolitical arms race,
--Microsoft uses AI to link malware groups in RICO case,
--Ukraine exposes Russian messenger hacking,
--Nation-state hackers mapped CI for sabotage,
--DPRK-linked election attacks surge 68-fold,
--DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' gets 18 m…

Frontier AI Beat: AI security becomes a geopolitical arms race
Microsoft uses AI to link malware groups in RICO case, Ukraine exposes Russian messenger hacking, Nation-state hackers mapped CI for sabotage, DPRK-linked election attacks surge 68-fold, DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' gets 18 months, ICE surveillance spending hits record high, much more