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November 22, 2025

November 22, 2025

November 22, 2025

Random Friday news: CrowdStrike says it caught an insider sharing screenshots with ShinyHunters and fired them last month. Allegedly, ShinyHunters paid the employee $25K for access and attempted to also buy private reports. Story: https://t.co/shA9hANwpD

— Costin Raiu (@craiu) November 21, 2025


The First Soviet Penetrations of the CIA? https://t.co/EwqM0TKJ7H

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) November 21, 2025


By far the most clever presentation I've seen of a big data dump:https://t.co/g4So6oyDh5

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) November 21, 2025


A few thoughts / hypotheses prompted by Anthropic’s report on Chinese use of AI to automate attacks and other similar threat profiles.

1. Attackers have always been more resource constrained (“attackers have bosses and budgets too”) than vulnerability constrained.

2. Many…

— Phil Venables (@philvenables) November 21, 2025


I’ve read and reread this report multiple times now. I continue to come back to the same conclusions.

1) American AI technology / platforms are the best at what they do.

2) These insights follow a predictable and expected trend in the automation of dual use cyber capabilities.…

— chrisrohlf (@chrisrohlf) November 21, 2025


Gen Threat Labs uncover evidence of rare cross-country coordination between Russia’s Gamaredon and North Korea’s Lazarus | https://t.co/YTx4672kdz @GenThreatLabs

— 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) (@780thC) November 21, 2025


#POC2025 Slides are up NOW!
Those slides currently in private and will be uploaded later by the speakers 😆https://t.co/GdR9tI6Mg1

— POC_Crew (@POC_Crew) November 21, 2025


Nano Banana Pro is a really good cartographer. Used it to turn low res satellite imagery into a detailed hand drawn map and vector HD map.

Pretty wild how well it segments everything and even recovers paths/roads hidden under tree cover.

Looks way more detailed than the… pic.twitter.com/hHIO3WZRFZ

— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) November 20, 2025

This could be a pretty cool way to generate the set dressing for maps (e.g. agricultural fields, wild forests, manicured parks). Even tried to vectorize the output in illustrator (see below).

My prompts below:

(Stylized Map)
Create a masterpiece-level hand-drawn urban… pic.twitter.com/8fPxFBO9rN

— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) November 20, 2025


i've been making fun of realism so I’ll say one nice thing about it: for all the accusations of amorality, the realist position that human needs & fears are basically the same everywhere is more humanist and cosmopolitan than liberal assumptions of institutionally-shaped cultures

— Seva (@SevaUT) November 21, 2025


As a follow up to my last post, here is part II of driver reverse engineering 101, this time about dynamic analysis. We unpack a VMProtected kernel driver and restore its IAT with some emulation. Enjoy:)https://t.co/QR5e623GX6

— eversinc33 🤍🔪⋆。˚ ⋆ (@eversinc33) November 21, 2025


BBC News - https://t.co/5uOhp0Jb9e
Reform UK's former Wales leader Nathan Gill is being sentenced over pro-Russia bribes - BBC News

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) November 21, 2025


Great talk by Samuel Groß(@5aelo). Those who think that the train has left and it is too late to enter the browser vr/xd... This is not true, so good luck to everyone in your endeavors. And once again I want to mention the legend - Seunghyun Lee(@0x10n)https://t.co/vxqmVaHIpU https://t.co/x8JPvtgPYB pic.twitter.com/gWuDFhGAK5

— xvonfers (@xvonfers) November 21, 2025


on backups https://t.co/NWV8ZwERz7

— JP Aumasson (@veorq) November 21, 2025


Lecture on Anti Tamper by Tim Blazytko https://t.co/XC4STOZuXG

— Karsten Hahn (@struppigel) November 22, 2025
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