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A week after that #hack, the #CISA recommended that users "discontinue use of the product" barring any mitigating instructions about how to use the app from #Smarsh.

Jake Williams, a fmr #NationalSecurity Agency #cyber specialist, said that, even if the intercepted text messages were innocuous, the wealth of #metadata - the who & when of the #leaked conversations & chat groups - posed a #counterintelligence risk.

Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages

Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection. Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell.

⚙️ theregister.com/2025/03/29/mal

The Register · Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruelBy Thomas Claburn

Once #DOGE employees (i.e. Musk's henchmen) gained access to the US government IT systems, login attempts with the correct credential and password combination were made from #Russia within 15 min.

At this point we should assume that all US government information systems have been compromised. It would be extremely foolish for any governments to share intelligence with the USA.

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