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December 18, 2025

December 18, 2025

December 18, 2025

Song lyric: found a way to turn the lights off Text: when you turned the lights off again Source: Poland’s Foreign Intelligence Service…

https://x.com/awgovpl/status/2001578966587707803

Epic troll


NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media. A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products. https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/

— 404 Media (@404media.co) 2025-12-17T14:22:28.429Z


https://rsf.org/en/exclusive-rsf-uncovers-new-spyware-belarus


https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/cisco-says-chinese-hackers-are-exploiting-its-customers-with-a-new-zero-day/


https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/


Malware signed in 2014 is still loading on Windows 11 in 2025. Not a bug. Not a zero-day. Just Windows doing exactly what it was designed to do.
We tracked a certificate that's been signing malware for 11 years straight. It still works perfectly.
New research:… pic.twitter.com/xOherjGvre

— MagicSword (@magicswordio) December 17, 2025


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