Artificial Intelligence (AI)

November 2025

November 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 45
Robin’s Newsletter #387
Vol. 8, Iss. 45

AI-powered cyber-espionage campaigns, JLR incident impacts UK GDP, Cyber Security and Resilience Bill unveiled.


Vol. 8, Iss. 45
Robin’s Newsletter #386
Vol. 8, Iss. 45

Overblown AI malware hype. Rogue cyber security pros moonlighting as ransomware affiliates. Meta profiteering from scammers.

October 2025

October 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 43
Robin’s Newsletter #384
Vol. 8, Iss. 43

AWS outage knocks out thousands of customers; JLR incident estimated to cost UK economy £1.9B; ICO decided not to investigate MOD Afghan breach.


Vol. 8, Iss. 41
Robin’s Newsletter #382
Vol. 8, Iss. 41

Discord data breach includes government ID verification info. It's trivilially easy to influence an LLM. JLR restarts operations.

September 2025

September 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 39
Robin’s Newsletter #380
Vol. 8, Iss. 39

JLR secures line of credit for supply chain. US Secret Service uncovers 100,000 SIM farm. NCA arrests man in Collins Aerospace attack.


Vol. 8, Iss. 36
Robin’s Newsletter #377
Vol. 8, Iss. 36

JLR production disruption. Anthropic's $1.5B settlement. Sainbury's using live facial recognition.

August 2025

August 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 35
Robin’s Newsletter #376
Vol. 8, Iss. 35

Salt Typhoon comp'd over 200 organisations. Anthropic says cybercrims run ransomware ops using Claude. SK Telecom lacked pretty much any security.


Vol. 8, Iss. 34
Robin’s Newsletter #375
Vol. 8, Iss. 34

US intel chief says UK walking back E2EE backdoor (for US citizens?) Interpol arrests 1,200 in African cybercrime crackdown. Accenture to acquire CyberCX.

July 2025

July 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 30
Robin’s Newsletter #371
Vol. 8, Iss. 30

SharePoint shells for China. Clorox's $380M help desk lawsuit. And massive surges in UK VPN signups following Online Safety Act checks come into effect.

May 2025

May 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 21
Robin’s Newsletter #362
Vol. 8, Iss. 21

Global infostealer, ransomware infrastrucutre takedown. TCS investigating role in M&S incident. Anthropic's AI blackmails developer in test.

March 2025

March 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 12
Robin’s Newsletter #353
Vol. 8, Iss. 12

Alphabet to buy Wiz for $32B. Oracle denies cloud platform compromise. Clearview AI class action lawsuit grants plaintiffs company stake.

February 2025

February 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 5
Robin’s Newsletter #346
Vol. 8, Iss. 5

DeepSeek buzz, bans, breaches. NAO says UK gov won't achieve 2025 cyber pledge.

January 2025

January 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 1
Robin’s Newsletter #342
Vol. 8, Iss. 1

UN approves cybercrime convention. Clop threatens Cleo breach names. Sanctions for Chinese firm links to Flax Typhoon. Doom as a CAPTCHA.

December 2024

December 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 51
Robin’s Newsletter #340
Vol. 7, Iss. 51

US considering TP-Link ban. Nebraska sues Change Healthcare. False Claims Act whistleblowers.

October 2024

October 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 40
Robin’s Newsletter #329
Vol. 7, Iss. 40

LockBit arrests. Evil Corp linked to Russian intelligence. Meta Ray Bans used in creepy facial recognition concept.

August 2024

August 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 33
Robin’s Newsletter #322
Vol. 7, Iss. 33

Large data set published from US Data broker. Trump campaign blames Iran for leaked emails. Critical zero-click TCP/IP vulnerability in Windows.

July 2024

July 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 27
Robin’s Newsletter #316
Vol. 7, Iss. 27

Unauthenticated RCE in OpenSSH. ShinyHunters release phone numbers of 33 million Authy users. Japan wins the 'war' on floppy disks.

April 2024

April 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 16
Robin’s Newsletter #305
Vol. 7, Iss. 16

Significant breach at data analytics firm Sisense. UK trade unions targeted. Perfect 10 vulnerability in Palo's GlobalProtect VPN product.

March 2024

March 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 13
Robin’s Newsletter #302
Vol. 7, Iss. 13

Open-source project compromised to allow SSH backdoor. UK, US accuse China of targeting politicians. Facebook AiTM'd users to spy on Snapchat usage.


Vol. 7, Iss. 10
Robin’s Newsletter #299
Vol. 7, Iss. 10

ALPHV pulls an exit scam after Change Healthcare seems to make ransom payment.

December 2023

December 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 49
Robin’s Newsletter #285
Vol. 6, Iss. 49

Iranian attack on US water facility. Chinese espionage group in Netherlands chip maker for years. US

November 2023

November 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 45
Robin’s Newsletter #281
Vol. 6, Iss. 45

SEC charges SolarWinds CISO. Countries vow not to pay ransomware demands. Major updates to CVSS.

October 2023

October 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 40
Robin’s Newsletter #276
Vol. 6, Iss. 40

Ukraine says Russia is going after war crimes data. US, Japan says China targeting routers for persistence. UK logistics firm goes under following ransomware attack.

August 2023

August 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 34
Robin’s Newsletter #270
Vol. 6, Iss. 34

The importance of using representative test data. Another UK police breach. Critical vulnerabilities in Citrix, Ivanti and WinRAR products.


Vol. 6, Iss. 33
Robin’s Newsletter #269
Vol. 6, Iss. 33

UK Elections watchdog comopromsed two years ago. Detials of Northern Ireland police staff accidentally published. Zoom backtracks on AI training in terms of service.

July 2023

July 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 29
Robin’s Newsletter #265
Vol. 6, Iss. 29

EU and US adopt new privacy framework for personal data transfers. Microsoft email systems breached by Chinese APT group. Poisoned AI models and disinformation.


Vol. 6, Iss. 28
Robin’s Newsletter #264
Vol. 6, Iss. 28

Japan's busiest port halted by ransomware. Academics write open letter over Online Safety Bill concerns. JumpCloud resets API keys.

June 2023

June 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 25
Robin’s Newsletter #261
Vol. 6, Iss. 25

More MOVEit victims and a $10 million bounty on Clop. Fortinet VPN vulnerability. A couple of cool side-channel techniques.

May 2023

May 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 19
Robin’s Newsletter #255
Vol. 6, Iss. 19

The figurative and literal jury is in on SolarWinds, Merck's NotPetya claim, Uber's data breach cover-up.

April 2023

April 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 18
Robin’s Newsletter #254
Vol. 6, Iss. 18

RSA Conference 2023 takeaways. Data-driven decision making. IoT and Digital Services legislation.


Vol. 6, Iss. 15
Robin’s Newsletter #251
Vol. 6, Iss. 15

Genesis Market seizure leads to 119 arrests. The UK on being a responsible cyber power. Security and privacy risks of AI chatbots.

February 2023

February 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 9
Robin’s Newsletter #245
Vol. 6, Iss. 9

USSOCCOM Email server left exposed. Critical vulnerability in another file transfer app. Signal says it would exit UK market.


Vol. 6, Iss. 7
Robin’s Newsletter #243
Vol. 6, Iss. 7

Sanctions for TrickBot as ransomware declared tier 1 national security risk. Hacking ChatGPT with prompt injection attacks. ESXiArgs ransomare spree continues. Dutch police bring down Exclu encrypted phone service.

January 2023

January 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 3
Robin’s Newsletter #239
Vol. 6, Iss. 3

LastPass silent on breach. Royal Mail ransomware attack. FAA system outage grounds flights. Exfiltrating data from Google Sheets.

December 2022

December 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 50
Robin’s Newsletter #234
Vol. 5, Iss. 50

Apple offers encrypted iCloud backups. Medibank takes ysstems offline for security improvements. Attack on NZ MSP affects Justice and health bodies.

October 2022

October 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 41
Robin’s Newsletter #225
Vol. 5, Iss. 41

Ex-Uber CSO found guilty of obstructing justice. Microsoft is botching 'ProxyNotShell' Exchange vulnerabilities. Australian man arrested in connection with Optus breach.

September 2022

September 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 38
Robin’s Newsletter #222
Vol. 5, Iss. 38

Welcome to 2022: Uber comprehensively owned via hardcoded PAM credentials, IHG password vault alleged secured using 'Qwerty1234'.

March 2021

March 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 10
Robin’s Newsletter #142
Vol. 4, Iss. 10

Hafnium mass-exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers. Google, Alliaz and MunichRe team up on cloud cyber insurance. Bitflipping may be more common than you think.

June 2020

June 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 24
Robins Newsletter #104
Vol. 3, Iss. 24

Snowstorm in a Dark Basin: Citizen Lab, MDR Cyber shine light on hackers for hire. Babylon Health breach and lessons from Apple, Amazon, and Google. How far do you go to protect against cyber-harm on your platform?