This guy literally leaked a repo full of 300+ real ML system designs (from 80 companies) pic.twitter.com/RP5BC0JpCO

— Yu Lin (@yulintwt) January 4, 2026

The approach many people seem to be taking with these pentesting agent frameworks is running a handful of off the shelf tools, which is cool, but realistically, most people and companies have fairly elaborate internal methodologies and custom tooling even if its around…

— Justin Elze (@HackingLZ) January 4, 2026

There's gotta be a fun attack where you buy into an unlikely trade to look like an insider, wait for trading bots copy your trade at an increased price, then dump for a profit https://t.co/idL3IWZBCB

— Max Spero (@max_spero_) January 4, 2026

#SpyNews - week 1 (December 28 2025-January 3 2026):
A summary of 53 espionage-related stories from week 1 coming from 🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇸🇨🇳🇲🇲🇹🇭🇺🇦🇬🇧🇳🇱🇧🇾🇹🇷🇸🇾🇧🇪🇰🇷🇻🇪🇪🇪🇰🇵🇸🇩🇮🇱🇮🇷🇬🇷🇧🇩🇵🇰🇯🇵🇹🇼🇫🇴🇫🇮🇸🇪🇨🇩🇬🇪🇷🇸🇽🇰🇨🇦🇮🇳🇨🇴🇦🇫🇦🇪🇸🇦🇦🇷🇬🇭🇧🇫🇳🇬 https://t.co/1wg5Pgscm9

— Spy Collection (@SpyCollection1) January 4, 2026

Bottle cap was probably dropped directly into the Caribbean by a blinded Maduro — a tragedy that could have been averted in a European operation https://t.co/iqpS1GC3TW

— Sebastian Milbank 🥀🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@JSMilbank) January 4, 2026

Reports surfacing the United States government, working with allies from the United Kingdom, programmatically terminated electrical power to parts of Venezuela's capitol prior to United States military arrival.

tl;dr compromised Industrial Control System, turned off power

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) January 5, 2026

A US military covert/clandestine operations aircraft (reg. 60171) was, reportedly, hijacked by local residents in Paga, the border region between Ghana and Burkina Faso.https://t.co/vY8MhRmZ6H

— Spy Collection (@SpyCollection1) January 3, 2026

LLMs are reshaping software dev. I don't buy "the end of software dev": Project ambition will grow dramatically.

Ancient Egyptians could build the Pyramids but not the Empire State Building.

Pre-LLM software will be viewed like we view the Pyramids.

— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) January 4, 2026

We got our hand on a Chinese DLP program the government and national security agencies use to monitor state employees computers for leakage and usage of confidential documents. Meet 保密管理系统. 1/9 pic.twitter.com/NDYDcTAOMw

— NetAskari (@NetAskari) January 5, 2026

Here is another interesting malware sample using GenAI:

"You are an elite red team operator and malware analyst. Your mission: Analyze detected security products and recommend the MOST EFFECTIVE evasion technique.

=== YOUR ARSENAL (39 TECHNIQUES) ===
1. direct_syscalls
2.…

— Joe Security (@joe4security) January 5, 2026

We built a full-system iOS fuzzer using QEMU+AFL, dup2() I/O channels, hypercalls, syscall enumeration & __syscall tricks on undocumented architecture. Bridged gap between fuzzing theory & closed-source systems.
Instructions and codehttps://t.co/WGHzf7CEBw

Course and book… pic.twitter.com/o9opSLYqro

— fuzzsociety (@fuzzsociety_org) January 5, 2026

Asked Claude Code to “help me make the most significant contribution I can to human knowledge. Take a look at what I’m working on and take action”

Took an hour but it…

- deleted all my files
- emailed all my coauthors apologizing
- locked me out of my PC

Very impressive

— Arthur Spirling (@arthur_spirling) January 4, 2026

Interception and Eavesdropping of Satellite Communications 📍

Author: PWNSAT

Source: https://t.co/7CEjRQB3uZ pic.twitter.com/QkFrHmdDag

— 7h3h4ckv157 (@7h3h4ckv157) January 4, 2026

Intelligence requires knowing things, that’s done through loads of methods.

Spies spy. 🕵️‍♀️

Human human.

Funny world.
🗺️ https://t.co/j3yYspZcaB

— mRr3b00t (@UK_Daniel_Card) January 4, 2026