Global Frequency - 8 June 2025

The broken edition as Builder AI fakes it until they break it, new privacy-breaking scheme discovered, and water infrastructure can be broken.

I'm headed to Vermont and look forward to getting some writing done. If there was one topic you'd love some longer-form perspective on from me, what would it be? This week on the Global Frequency...

Cybercrime is surging. Will AI make it worse? (Read More)

A deep look at a notorious Russian GRU unit. (Read More)

China is pulling ahead in key technology areas. (Read More)

In Brazil, citizens will soon be able to monetize their own data. (Read More)

Mischief before money. Inside the hacker group that targeted the M&S retailer. (Read More)

AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion. (Read More)

Two of the biggest threat actor naming offenders agree to cooperate on threat actor naming taxonomy. (Read More)

Paradromics enters into brain implant trial territory. (Read More)

Northface and Cartier retailers suffer cybersecurity breach. (Read More)

Indian grocery startup gets hacked and attackers opt for complete destruction of code, data, and other resources. (Read More)

Is a cyber attack on the US power grid a Gray Rhino? (Read More)

In a world of complex fraud deepfakes, human knowledge might be the solution to help manage risk. (Read More)

Espionage concerns over Kaspersky relationship with Swiss intelligence services. (Read More)

Salesforce apps targeted in data theft and social engineering scheme. (Read More)

Meta inks deal to revive aging nuclear power plant. (Read More)

Anthropic creates a .gov version of their LLM service. (Read More)

Walmart expands drone delivery service to 100 new stores. (Read More)

Water infrastructure systems were internet accessible and controllable by anyone with a browser. (Read More)

Iranian APT hid in network for 8 years. (Read More)

Builder.ai was faking AI code generation with a team of remote engineers. Not all that glitters is gold...or even gold plated. (Read More)

Detailed piece exploring the SEC hacking case. (Read More)

Apple says sand can't think and just gives the illusion of thinking. Of course, Apple is quite the laggard on LLM these days. (Read More)

New privacy violating technique caught the experts by surprise. (Read More)

Fact or Fiction:

Don't be confused by the title because "How Not to Invest: The ideas, numbers, and behavior that destroy wealth and how to avoid them" by Barry Ritholtz is actually an excellent book on decision-making, prediction, and information analysis. While the author's focus is on investing, the issues examined are applicable across lots of disciplines and many of the examples, case-studies, and other reference material are drawn from outside the financial world. Highly recommended. (Amazon Link)

Quote of the Week:

“The reason that ‘guru’ is such a popular word is because ‘charlatan’ is so hard to spell.” - William Bernstein