China
August 2025
August 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #372
Hacktivists ground dozens of Russian flights. Palo Alto acquires CyberArk for $25 billion. OpenAI rolls back conversation sharing feature.
May 2025
May 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 19
Robin’s Newsletter #360
China 'becoming a cyber superpower'. SignalGate twist: it wasn't Signal. SK Telecom breach could result in $5B revenue loss.
March 2025
March 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 10
Robin’s Newsletter #351
Silk Typhoon shift focus to tech supply chains. Apple launches legal challenge over UK backdoor request. Scammers sending fake, physical ransom notes.
February 2025
February 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 7
Robin’s Newsletter #348
DOGE and the 'most consequential' breach in history. Salt Typhoon seen in five more telcos. AI Summaries are mostly inaccurate.
Vol. 8, Iss. 6
Robin’s Newsletter #347
UK demands Apple break iCloud encryption. Hurricane-style categorisation of cyber incidents. Meta torrented pirated books to train AI models.
Vol. 8, Iss. 5
Robin’s Newsletter #346
DeepSeek buzz, bans, breaches. NAO says UK gov won't achieve 2025 cyber pledge.
January 2025
January 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 2
Robin’s Newsletter #343
Ivanti zero-day exploits. US Treasury breach targeted foreign investment committee. Minor changes needed to manipulate AI models for misinformation.
Vol. 8, Iss. 1
Robin’s Newsletter #342
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
US considering TP-Link ban. Nebraska sues Change Healthcare. False Claims Act whistleblowers.
Vol. 7, Iss. 49
Robin’s Newsletter #338
More Salt Typhoon victims, as FCC proposes new telco cyber regulations.
November 2024
November 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 47
Robin’s Newsletter #336
Black Friday scam warning. Microsoft Windows changes announced following CrowdStrike outage. Facebook take down of 2 million pig butchering accounts.
Vol. 7, Iss. 46
Robin’s Newsletter #335
£100M air traffic incident caused by duplicate airport codes. CISA, FBI says China was after wiretap data.
Vol. 7, Iss. 45
Robin’s Newsletter #334
Okta auth bypass for long usernames. Copyright infringement notices used to drop infostealers. Schneider Electric attacker wants payment in baguettes.
October 2024
October 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 42
Robin’s Newsletter #331
Chinese accusations of Intel backdoors. Microsoft loses customer security logs. Hong Kong arrests in multi-milloin deepfake video scams.
Vol. 7, Iss. 41
Robin’s Newsletter #330
Chinese actors compromised major US telcos. Marriott agrees to 20-year FTC settlement.
September 2024
September 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 39
Robin’s Newsletter #328
Linux CUPS vuln hype. UK railway wifi portal defaced. Kaspersky pulls switchero on US customers.
Vol. 7, Iss. 37
Robin’s Newsletter #327
US dismantles massive Chinese botnet. Confidence testing questions for CISOs. Bumper load of interesting reads.
Vol. 7, Iss. 35
Robin’s Newsletter #324
Telegram CEO charged in France for illegal activity on the platform. Ukraine launches cyber range. Chinese attackers compromise four ISPs.
July 2024
July 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 28
Robin’s Newsletter #317
AT&T lost call and SMS records from 'nearly all' of its customers. German bans Chinese telco kit. Vulnerability in RADIUS protocol.
June 2024
June 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 23
Robin’s Newsletter #312
Ransomware attack at NHS London supplier disrupts operations. Microsoft recalls Recall, promises improved security and privacy. Plus a puzzle for you.
May 2024
May 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 21
Robin’s Newsletter #310
Microsoft Recall is a 'privacy nightmare'. UK/China threat not being takn seriously. FBI says Scattered Spiter is ~1,000 people.
April 2024
April 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 14
Robin’s Newsletter #303
CSRB slams Microsoft over 'preventable' Storm-558 breach that 'should never have occured'.
March 2024
March 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 13
Robin’s Newsletter #302
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. 12
Robin’s Newsletter #301
3 million hotel door locks vulnerable. Esports tournament suspended after compromise. New variant of AcidRain satellite malware discovered.
February 2024
February 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 8
Robin’s Newsletter #297
LockBit comprehensively pwned by UK, US and EU law enforcement. Leak at Chiense security copmany gives insight into outsourcing of government attacks.
Vol. 7, Iss. 6
Robin’s Newsletter #295
No, 3 million toothbrushes didn't DDoS anything. But... Deepfake video used in CFO scam to steal £20 million. TfL has been trialling AI surveillance.
Vol. 7, Iss. 5
Robin’s Newsletter #294
FBI disrupted Volt Typhoon activity. Moody's downgrades UK water sector due to cyber threat. Stolen FTX millions linked to US SIM swapping ring.
January 2024
January 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 2
Robin’s Newsletter #291
SEC Twitter account compromised; used to swing Bitcoin price. Pro-Ukraine group launches retaliatory attack on Russian ISP.
December 2023
December 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 53
Robin’s Newsletter #289
Chinese group still targeting Barracuda ESGs. Kaspersky details on 'Trangulation' operation. A look back on 2023.
Vol. 6, Iss. 51
Robin’s Newsletter #287
Russian group claims responsibility for knocking out Ukraine's largest telco. National Grid removing Chinese tech from electricity network. PSNI breach expected to cost over £20M.
Vol. 6, Iss. 49
Robin’s Newsletter #285
Iranian attack on US water facility. Chinese espionage group in Netherlands chip maker for years. US
October 2023
October 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 43
Robin’s Newsletter #279
Five Eyes security chiefs warn of espionage threat. Two ransomware gangs taken out. Thousands of Cisco devices compromised.
Vol. 6, Iss. 40
Robin’s Newsletter #276
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.
September 2023
September 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 37
Robin’s Newsletter #273
Results of Microsoft investigation into US government email compromise. Online Safety Bill E2EE clause to remain unenforced until 'technically feasible'.
July 2023
July 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 29
Robin’s Newsletter #265
EU and US adopt new privacy framework for personal data transfers. Microsoft email systems breached by Chinese APT group. Poisoned AI models and disinformation.
May 2023
May 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 22
Robin’s Newsletter #258
Meta fine €1.2 billion. US-China cyber tensions. Brute-forcing biometric authentication. Insider threat fail.
March 2023
March 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 13
Robin’s Newsletter #249
TikTok bans continue, Russia bans iPhones from Putin’s inner circle, China & Russia set sights on tech sovereignty
January 2023
January 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 2
Robin’s Newsletter #238
Details of 200 million Twitter users posted online. Cracking 2048-bit RSA encryption. Turla co-opting old malware.
July 2022
July 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 28
Robin’s Newsletter #212
Apple's extreme 'Lockdown Mode' to protect against NSO Group. Apparent breach of 1 billion Chinese citizens data. Bad week for NPM ecosystem.
June 2022
June 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 24
Robin’s Newsletter #208
LockBit distances themselves from Conti. Round-up from RSA Conference 2022. And 'predicting thunderstorms not lightning strikes'.
February 2022
February 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 6
Robin’s Newsletter #190
News Corp targeted in 'advanced persistent' attack. US launches Cyber Safety Review Board. One guy knocks North Korea off the 'net.
November 2021
November 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 45
Robin’s Newsletter #177
Trojan source vulnerbaility in the way compilers handle Unicode characters. Meta/Facebook to disable facial recnogition feature and delete faceprints.
July 2021
July 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 30
Robin’s Newsletter #162
China called out for state-sponsored cyber campaigns. NSO Group in the spotlight (again) for spyware. Questionable QA on Google Chrome OS update.
May 2021
May 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 21
Robin’s Newsletter #153
Lots of ransomware: Ireland's HSE will not pay. Colonial coughed up $4.4M'. But there are Technology Detection Dogs. And they're very good dogs!
September 2020
September 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 37
Robin’s Newsletter #117
China's Global Initiative on Data Security; Ireland's data regulator 'unlikes' Facebook; Who is top of the Cyber Power Index?
July 2020
July 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 28
Robin’s Newsletter #108
Hong Kong's new national security law causes headaches for citizens, tech and finance companies. Steal the cash, not the painting. Cosmic Lynx and Russian cyber-criminals' 'synergistic value accelerative opportunity'
April 2020
April 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 7
Robin’s Newsletter #87
Huawei, Crypto AG, and all the nations doin' all the cybers; plus Emotet.