Iran
August 2026
August 2026
Vol. 9, Iss. 34
Robin’s Newsletter #427
Small UK power plant shutdown by Iranian group. AI firms promise better segregation, monitoring. 3.7M people affected by US health records breach.
Vol. 9, Iss. 32
Robin’s Newsletter #424
More AI agent incidents surface. Iranian attacks on US water expand. $88 million stolen via flaw in hardware cryptocurrency wallets.
July 2026
July 2026
Vol. 9, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #423
Anthropic says Claude broke into three orgs. Co-ordinated attack against 30 Minnesota water systems. Google Earth GenAI is a lesson in product design.
Vol. 9, Iss. 30
Robin’s Newsletter #423
OpenAI model goes rogue, breaks out of sandbox, into Hugging Face, overshadowing Google Gemini release.
May 2026
May 2026
Vol. 9, Iss. 21
Robin’s Newsletter #414
CISA credentials exposed in public repo. GitHub source code stolen. Iran wants to charge for Hormuz internet cables.
April 2026
April 2026
Vol. 9, Iss. 15
Robin’s Newsletter #408
Mythos madness. Russian DNS hijacking. US warns energy, water, of Iranian threat actors.
Vol. 9, Iss. 14
Robin’s Newsletter #407
Anthropic's source code leak. North Korea compromises popular JS library. What does Rowhammer mean for Nvidia GPUs in AI workloads?
March 2026
March 2026
Vol. 9, Iss. 13
Robin’s Newsletter #406
TeamPCP software supply-chain attacks widen, target Iran with crude wiper. US bans foreign-made routers. FBI director Kash Patel email's compromised.
Vol. 9, Iss. 12
Robin’s Newsletter #405
Delve compliance reports called into question. US evaluators lacked confidence in Microsoft cloud. Feds seize Iran-linked domains in Stryker attack.
Vol. 9, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #404
Iran-linked group retaliatory cyberattack against US med-tech co, Stryker. Malciious code hiding in the whitespace. Google completes Wiz acquisition.
Vol. 9, Iss. 10
Robin’s Newsletter #403
Iran war: cyber's role in blackouts, broadcasts, and CCTV. Plus LLMs make identifying pseudonymous profiles trivial.
July 2025
July 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 28
Robin’s Newsletter #369
Four arrested in UK retail cyber attacks. Critical Citrix Bleed 2 vulnerability. Would you like fries with that? McDonald's 123456 password.
Vol. 8, Iss. 27
Robin’s Newsletter #368
Sinoloa cartel used compromised mobile devices, CCTV, to identify and kill FBI informants. Qantas breached by Scattered Spider. Canada bans Hikvision.
June 2025
June 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 25
Robin’s Newsletter #366
Israeli/Iran cyberspace heating up. Scattered Spider turns to insurance industry. 23andMe fined £2.3M by ICO.
May 2025
May 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 18
Robin’s Newsletter #359
Co-op, Harrods join M&S as victims of Scattered Spider breaches. Spanish power outage not a cyberattack. RDP lets you login with old creds.
April 2025
April 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 16
Robin’s Newsletter #357
MITRE CVE funding secured, for now. Florida lawmakers want in on E2EE backdoor. Silicon Valley traffic crossings hacked to play spoof Zuck, Musk audio.
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.
September 2024
September 2024
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.
August 2024
August 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 34
Robin’s Newsletter #323
US intel says Iran behind Trump campaign hack. Man hacks death register to get out of child support payments. How not to run a phishing test.
Vol. 7, Iss. 33
Robin’s Newsletter #322
Large data set published from US Data broker. Trump campaign blames Iran for leaked emails. Critical zero-click TCP/IP vulnerability in Windows.
December 2023
December 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 52
Robin’s Newsletter #288
Predatory Sparrow disrupts 70% of Iran's petrol pumps. New SEC breach rules come into force. Authories seize APLHV dark web site.
Vol. 6, Iss. 49
Robin’s Newsletter #285
Iranian attack on US water facility. Chinese espionage group in Netherlands chip maker for years. US
September 2022
September 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 37
Robin’s Newsletter #221
Ex-Uber CISO trial underway for bug bounty handling of data breach. UK, US, Albania condemn Iranian cyber-attacks. China accuses NSA of spying.
July 2022
July 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 27
Robin’s Newsletter #211
'Hacktivists' execute cyber attack against Iranian steel works, 'mercenary hackers' swaying legal battles, and malicious insiders
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.
August 2021
August 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #163
Biden's 'real shooting war' comments. Amazon's €746M GDPR fine. Iran's fake social media profiles. Phantom flotillas.
July 2020
July 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 27
Robins Newsletter #107
Encrochat and evolving law enforcement tactics prove there is a different want to encryption backdoors. Explosion at Natanz doesn't mean 'Stuxnet 2.' And, don't host your website on Internet Archive.
June 2020
June 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 23
Robins Newsletter #103
REvil launch auction site, while Maze and LockBit team up to pool resources, know-how. Plus inside a BEC scam and DROP DATABASE tickets.