Merve Sahin
mervesahin.bsky.social
Merve Sahin
@mervesahin.bsky.social
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AI models aren’t just math -- they’re code.
And just like npm or PyPI, they can get hacked.

Today we’re launching malware scanning for the Hugging Face ecosystem. 🤖🔍

Socket can now detect backdoors and malicious payloads inside AI models themselves.

👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FQy...
Announcing Experimental Malware Scanning for the Hugging Face Ecosystem
YouTube video by Socket Security
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.

The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
motherjones.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Tomorrow at 6:30 PM the EU Green Parliament group holds a webinar on #ChatControl
act.greens-efa.eu/chatcontrol
Stop Chat Control: Why scanning all our private messages is a very bad idea
🔴 Webinar - Tue 30 Sep 18.30h CEST
act.greens-efa.eu
September 29, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Vulnerability found: A single packet can paralyze smartphones
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-vulnerability-packet-paralyze-smartphones.html
August 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info

www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz's phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.
www.404media.co
May 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau steps in when Americans have been ripped off by big banks or corporations.

It has returned more than $20 billion to consumers since it was founded over a decade ago.

Now the world’s richest man is bragging about ending it.
February 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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The third #ACSAC2024 #PaperPreview today is Tao et al.'s work shich shows #backdoor #attacks in #machinelearning can be realized without poisoning the data or model, referred to as inherent backdoors: www.openconf.org/acs...
#AI #ML #cybersecurity
November 28, 2024 at 4:01 PM