Surveillance
July 2025
July 2025
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.
March 2025
March 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #352
Apple/UK gov hearing held in private. Garantex founder arrested on holiday in India. American fraud losses up 25%.
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.
Vol. 8, Iss. 9
Robin’s Newsletter #350
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.
February 2025
February 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 8
Robin’s Newsletter #349
Apple disables ADP in UK amidst E2EE fight with UK gov. Trump seeks control of independent agencies. $1.4B stolen from Bybit cryptocurrency exchange.
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.
December 2024
December 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 50
Robin’s Newsletter #339
File transfer systems attacked. FCC funding to replace Chiense telco equipment. Romania nnuls election results over suspected interference.
March 2024
March 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #300
British Library lessons learned. Personal info of 43 million French citizens may have been leaked. McDonlad's outage caused by third-party configuration error.
February 2024
February 2024
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.
December 2023
December 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. 50
Robin’s Newsletter #286
23andMe data breach impacts grow. Pushing surveillance. Five Eyes detail Russian political meddling.
November 2023
November 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 47
Robin’s Newsletter #283
Australian port operations disrupted by cyber-attack. 16 Danish CNI orgs hit simultaneously earlier this year. Ransomware group files SEC complaint.
October 2023
October 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 44
Robin’s Newsletter #280
1Password, Cloudflare amongst 170 caught up in Okta breach. UK Online Safety Bill becomes law. Lawful intercept against Russian chat service.
May 2023
May 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 19
Robin’s Newsletter #255
The figurative and literal jury is in on SolarWinds, Merck's NotPetya claim, Uber's data breach cover-up.
December 2022
December 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 52
Robin’s Newsletter #236
LastPass customer vault data stolen in breach. EternalBlue-style vulnerability in Windows. Okta source code stolen.
Vol. 5, Iss. 51
Robin’s Newsletter #235
Microsoft certs used to sign malware. AWS API exposed ability to modify, delete container images. BEC scammers are targeting sugar and milk powder.
September 2021
September 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 36
Robin’s Newsletter #168
Focus on proxyware, patch your confluence servers, the normalisation of surveillance, and interview with a ransomware negotiator.
March 2021
March 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #143
Criminals jump on Hafnium/ProxyLogon. Hacktivists breach Verkada's 150K facial recognition cams. Apple's IP theft lawsuit. Google's Spectre exploit.
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. 14
Robin’s Newsletter #94
All the Zoom news distilled, plus Marriott data breach, Morrisons' supreme court win, cloud availability, bug bounty non-disclosures and COVID-19 CTI.