North Korea

September 2026

September 2026


Vol. 9, Iss. 38
Robin’s Newsletter #431
Vol. 9, Iss. 38

US authorities board vessels to check for cyber compromise. Google says Gemini kinda did crimes. US Treasury Sec says AI labs should be held liable.

June 2026

June 2026


Vol. 9, Iss. 24
Robin’s Newsletter #417
Vol. 9, Iss. 24

Claude access restrited. Microsoft repos compromised for second time in as many weeks. OpenClaw is average at phishing emails.

April 2026

April 2026


Vol. 9, Iss. 15
Robin’s Newsletter #408
Vol. 9, Iss. 15

Mythos madness. Russian DNS hijacking. US warns energy, water, of Iranian threat actors.


Vol. 9, Iss. 14
Robin’s Newsletter #407
Vol. 9, Iss. 14

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. 12
Robin’s Newsletter #405
Vol. 9, Iss. 12

Delve compliance reports called into question. US evaluators lacked confidence in Microsoft cloud. Feds seize Iran-linked domains in Stryker attack.

December 2025

December 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 50
Robin’s Newsletter #391
Vol. 8, Iss. 50

Have we reached peak ransomware? 50+ orgs affected by React2shell fallout. Highly-targeted 'ConsentFix' campaign.

October 2025

October 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 42
Robin’s Newsletter #383
Vol. 8, Iss. 42

‘Sophisticated’ threat had ‘long-term’ access to F5. 'Nationally significant' attacks against UK up 50%. NK hiding malware in smart contracts.

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.

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. 32
Robin’s Newsletter #373
Vol. 8, Iss. 32

Bouygues telecom breach affects 6.4M. Microsoft Exchange vulnerability allows cloud takeover. Thai hospital fined for patient record food wrappers.

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.


Vol. 8, Iss. 29
Robin’s Newsletter #370
Vol. 8, Iss. 29

Data on 6.5M Co-op members stolen. UK MoD kept Afghan data breach a secret using super-injunction. Salt Typhoon all up in National Guard's network.

June 2025

June 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 23
Robin’s Newsletter #364
Vol. 8, Iss. 23

More retail cyber attack news. Meta, Yandex caught de-anonymising Android users. Vendors to collaborate on threat actor naming.

May 2025

May 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 20
Robin’s Newsletter #361
Vol. 8, Iss. 20

M&S insurance claim may top £100M. Coinbase flips script on extortion attempt. OpenAI instructed to retain output log data.


Vol. 8, Iss. 18
Robin’s Newsletter #359
Vol. 8, Iss. 18

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. 17
Robin’s Newsletter #358
Vol. 8, Iss. 17

M&S Cyber incident. Lots of data from FBI, Verizon, IBM, Mandient. Calls for greater harmonisation of cyber rules.

March 2025

March 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #352
Vol. 8, Iss. 11

Apple/UK gov hearing held in private. Garantex founder arrested on holiday in India. American fraud losses up 25%.


Vol. 8, Iss. 9
Robin’s Newsletter #350
Vol. 8, Iss. 9

FBI points finger at North Korea for $1.5B crypto-heist. US deprioritises Russia cyber threat. 7,000 people freed from scam centres in Myanmar.

October 2024

October 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 42
Robin’s Newsletter #331
Vol. 7, Iss. 42

Chinese accusations of Intel backdoors. Microsoft loses customer security logs. Hong Kong arrests in multi-milloin deepfake video scams.

August 2024

August 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 32
Robin’s Newsletter #321
Vol. 7, Iss. 32

CrowdStrike's underwhelming root cause analysis. Progress escapes SEC action. Dutch DPA rules data scraping has no legal basis.

February 2024

February 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 6
Robin’s Newsletter #295
Vol. 7, Iss. 6

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.

November 2023

November 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 48
Robin’s Newsletter #284
Vol. 6, Iss. 48

Warning over Lazarus software supply-chain attacks. Australia cyber security strategy published.

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.

February 2022

February 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 6
Robin’s Newsletter #190
Vol. 5, Iss. 6

News Corp targeted in 'advanced persistent' attack. US launches Cyber Safety Review Board. One guy knocks North Korea off the 'net.

January 2022

January 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 3
Robin’s Newsletter #187
Vol. 5, Iss. 3

Russian authorities scoop up members of REvil. Google Analytics and GDPR. Using a cyberattack to accelerate dgitial transformation.

January 2021

January 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 5
Robin’s Newsletter #137
Vol. 4, Iss. 5

Law enforcement's Emotet takedown and NetWalker leak site seized. Got root? Sudo vuln will get you there. North Korea goes after security researchers for 0-day.

April 2020

April 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 16
Robins Newsletter #96
Vol. 3, Iss. 16

Compliance risk and the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia’s loss of €30M-€100M #COVID19 aid because of poor identity verification. Plus DoD and measuring meaningful things. And jumping air-gaps with computer fans.


Vol. 3, Iss. 7
Robin’s Newsletter #87
Vol. 3, Iss. 7

Huawei, Crypto AG, and all the nations doin' all the cybers; plus Emotet.