A fake Bloomberg account with a Verified Blue Check on Twitter posted an apparently AI-generated picture of an explosion at the Pentagon this morning.

There was no explosion at the Pentagon, but the stock market still dipped.https://t.co/RCWKQwjgU1

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 22, 2023

This morning blue check accounts accounts claimed large explosions at the Pentagon.

... then the White House.

Russian state media amplified the faked Pentagon image from their gold check account.

The images look AI generated, as folks identified. 1/ pic.twitter.com/Bd9uu3jwPZ

— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) May 22, 2023

SCOOP with @DrWhax

- Israel killed Morocco's access to Pegasus - but also failed to okay its deal with QuaDream

- Leaked code reveals their spyware and show it may have abused WhatsApp

- Sources: Firm also developed “terrifying” new spywarehttps://t.co/yzUlfMgcdH

— Omer Benjakob (@omerbenj) May 22, 2023

Full technical analysis of QuaDream's leaked code can be found here by @DrWhax https://t.co/zUmPk9LODc

— Omer Benjakob (@omerbenj) May 22, 2023

It is time to give up on computers altogether. https://t.co/R4NdsQVYK1 pic.twitter.com/EOvX146aE4

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) May 23, 2023

Researchers: we must control and limit AI.

Also researchers: We trained AI to skin and wear people's faces. pic.twitter.com/Kvu4AJ2Zzk

— AIfredo Ortega (@ortegaalfredo) May 22, 2023

It is still unclear how, despite red flags, Teixeira was allowed to enlist in the Air National Guard and maintain access to classified information for so long:https://t.co/7vBm80JZF9

— Electrospaces (@electrospaces) May 22, 2023

https://t.co/7QQXLtTafN Fussing about with fuzzers.

— Dave Aitel (@daveaitel) May 22, 2023

Rheinmetall has confirmed that the Black Basta ransomware group was behind a cyberattack it detected last month.

A spokesperson told @TheRecord_Media that the company was “continuing to work on resolving” the attack.https://t.co/PoepmcXpD0

— Alex Martin (@AlexMartin) May 22, 2023

@BlackHatEvents Early Bird Pricing Ends this Friday!
Save your spot on my Trainings about breaking BitLocker:https://t.co/WetfCIVLXbhttps://t.co/3PM2PqcUR1

The outcome of my MSc thesis "Defeating Microsoft's Default BitLocker Implementation": a thread about ups and downs(1/8) pic.twitter.com/pyO16oBh1c

— Pascal Gujer  (@pascal_gujer) May 22, 2023

Ironic pic.twitter.com/0ADmSEJLML

— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) May 22, 2023

Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption for hundreds of millions of people within the European Union, according to a leaked document "that reveals strong support among EU member states for proposals to scan private messages for illegal content." https://t.co/MzoQ07EdPj

— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) May 22, 2023

It's not surprising there is a market for these takes, but they're just not very good takes, because the whole thing requires positing a different world where the observable effects of the War in Ukraine are different from what they are.

The PRC doesn't *seem* thrilled. 1/ https://t.co/6qJsrx1SCo

— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) May 22, 2023

Wanna know how to hack a satellite?@jwillbold will present our paper “Space Odyssey: An Experimental Software Security Analysis of Satellites” at @IEEESSP today - join us for the first talk of the first track!

PDF https://t.co/uwYRtJFsDV

CC @VoeMan, @thorstenholz, @AlixAbbasi

— Moritz Schloegel (@m_u00d8) May 22, 2023

"Speculation over the council’s leadership had mounted in January when Iran executed Shamkhani’s former deputy over alleged spying for the UK".https://t.co/BNPd1WGgx3

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) May 23, 2023

https://t.co/PYvQY1Paiv

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) May 23, 2023