Subj : CRYPTO-GRAM, February 15, 2025
To   : All
From : TCOB1
Date : Sat Feb 15 2025 11:56:54

** IN THIS ISSUE:
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     1. Phishing False Alarm
     2. FBI Deletes PlugX Malware from Thousands of Computers
     3. Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections
     4. Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order
     5. AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes
     6. AI Will Write Complex Laws
     7. Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2=
024)
     8. New VPN Backdoor
     9. CISA Under Trump
     10. ExxonMobil Lobbyist Caught Hacking Climate Activists
     11. Fake Reddit and WeTransfer Sites Are Pushing Malware
     12. Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by=
 Paragon Spyware
     13. Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election
     14. On Generative AI Security
     15. AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
     16. Screenshot-Reading Malware
     17. UK Is Ordering Apple to Break Its Own Encryption
     18. Pairwise Authentication of Humans
     19. Trusted Execution Environments
     20. Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets
     21. DOGE as a National Cyberattack
     22. AI and Civil Service Purges
     23. Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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Read online at https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2025/0215.html

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