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lorenzofb.bsky.social
Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 Past lives: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED.
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We published the story related to this zero-day this morning: techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/r...
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OK, turns out there is a second journalist in Italy who got an Apple notification: www.ilgraffio.net/2025/05/01/s...
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Obviously one of those two journalists is Pellegrino. The other...I am not sure. That can't be this new European journalist since the report was published last week. Very confusing...
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UPDATE: COPASIR, the Italian parliament committee that investigated the Paragon scandal referred to a section in its report that says it could expand its inquiry, including into "the alleged mobile device intrusions disclosed by two other journalists in recent weeks." techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/r...
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As always, worth reading Citizen Lab's whole report here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...
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Thank you!
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Do you have a link that says more about this?
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I did not! This is a great resource. Thank you!
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Based on people's suggestions here and on Mastodon, here's a wishlist of cyber books. bookshop.org/wishlists/9c...
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Apple sued Corellium years ago, a lawsuit in which it argued that Corellium had offered to sell its technology to companies like Dark Matter, NSO Group, and Russian forensic tool maker Elcomsoft. www.wired.com/story/corell...
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According to my sources, Cellebrite used to purchase iPhone prototypes (aka dev-fused devices), which had lower security features, to develop its zero-days. Corellium's founder Chris Wade also purchased them back in the day, according to sources. www.vice.com/en/article/t...
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I loved that one, can't believe I forgot to mention it.
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-- Fiction: Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Murderbot, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Homeland, Mark Russinovich's trilogy. 3/3
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-- Non-fiction: Cuckoo's Egg, Kingpin, Ghost in the Wires, Cyberwar Will Not Take Place, Countdown to Zero Day, @war, LikeWar, The Hacker Crackdown, Cyber Spies, Spam Nation, Cult of the Dead Cow, Tracers in the Dark, Dark Wire. 2/3
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Welcome back, we missed you!
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I am sorry I brought you into this 😅
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I mean, I guess cybersecurity isn’t really that important at this point
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Please invite me to these Slacks, they sound interesting
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So it’s all ifosec.exchange and Twitter still?
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I missed the sword!