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Check out today's Metacurty for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters claims dossiers on US officials including NSA employees
--EU cops bust up illegal SIM-box service,
--Russia's COLDRIVER uses two new backdoors,
--Korea preps financial consumer data protection bill,
--76K WatchGuard Firebox network security appliances are exposed on the web,
--Attackers target OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studi…

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters claims dossiers on US officials including NSA employees
EU cops bust up illegal SIM-box service, Russia's COLDRIVER uses two new backdoors, Korea preps financial consumer data protection bill, 76K WatchGuard Firebox network security appliances are exposed on the web, Attackers target OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio with GlassWorm malware, much more

Some day in the future - some glorious day in the future - I hope that the maga government - from El Cheato through Miller, Noem, Vought, etc - will face tribunals.
They will, of course, demand our full panoply of due processes. And they will claim immunity as merely carrying out government business and powers.
Do they deserve those due processes or that we give credit to those claims of immunity?
The lawyer in me says "YES!!". The person in me says "Hold o…

Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e087e732-5f71-4db3-b613-830f3cee313d

Judge's Home Happens To Burn Down Day After Stephen Miller Claims Democrat Judges Shield ‘Terrorists’ - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/10/judges-home-happens-to-burn-down-day-after-stephen-miller-claims-democrat-judges-shield-terrorists/

Cooling It Down
The house was completely silent—until it wasn’t. A sudden thud and rush of noise had me bracing for an expensive repair. From that small surprise to AI reviving legends, it’s been a week of odd resurrections.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/cooling-it-down/

Cooling It Down – Bob Mueller
A quiet night turns chaotic, a computer gets rebuilt, AI brings the dead back to life. From icemakers to holograms, it’s been a strange week.

Top Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller was accused of spreading dangerous “propaganda” Saturday night
regarding the federal judge who ruled that the White House could not deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
The White House deputy chief of staff accused U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut,
who was appointed by Trump during his first term, of “legal insurrection”
after she found that the president’s claims about violent protests at a U.S. Immig…

White House Responds With 'Authoritarian Propaganda' as Judge Blocks National Guard in Portland | Common Dreams
Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller accused Judge Immergut of "legal insurrection" for blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. Miller claimed left-wing terrorism and called for dismantling networks.

Interleaved Learning and Exploration: A Self-Adaptive Fuzz Testing Framework for MLIR
Zeyu Sun, Jingjing Liang, Weiyi Wang, Chenyao Suo, Junjie Chen, Fanjiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07815

Interleaved Learning and Exploration: A Self-Adaptive Fuzz Testing Framework for MLIR
MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) has rapidly become a foundational technology for modern compiler frameworks, enabling extensibility across diverse domains. However, ensuring the correctness and robustness of MLIR itself remains challenging. Existing fuzzing approaches-based on manually crafted templates or rule-based mutations-struggle to generate sufficiently diverse and semantically valid test cases, making it difficult to expose subtle or deep-seated bugs within MLIR's complex…

LLM-Generated Samples for Android Malware Detection
Nik Rollinson, Nikolaos Polatidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02391 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02391

LLM-Generated Samples for Android Malware Detection
Android malware continues to evolve through obfuscation and polymorphism, posing challenges for both signature-based defenses and machine learning models trained on limited and imbalanced datasets. Synthetic data has been proposed as a remedy for scarcity, yet the role of large language models (LLMs) in generating effective malware data for detection tasks remains underexplored. In this study, we fine-tune GPT-4.1-mini to produce structured records for three malware families: BankBot, Locker/SL…

There's ice in the house and my computer is back--again. See what else is going on this week.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/cooling-it-down/

Cooling It Down – Bob Mueller
A quiet night turns chaotic, a computer gets rebuilt, AI brings the dead back to life. From icemakers to holograms, it’s been a strange week.

A federal judge on Wednesday shredded the Trump administration’s shallow defense for bragging about its rampant, warrantless immigration arrests.
In an 88-page ruling, U.S. Judge Beryl Howell wrote that the Trump administration had illegally lowered the standard for making immigration arrests
when it instituted a policy of “arrest now, ask questions later” as part of the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.
Howell documented how the Department of Homeland Security and Trump …

Judge Rips Stephen Miller as “Ignorant or Incompetent, or Both”
The judge said Miller had made erroneous claims about warrantless arrests.