Nicole Perlroth
@nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
cyber raconteur | author THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS | former @nytimes | now betting on heroes @ Silver Buckshot Ventures + Venture Partner at Ballistic Ventures.
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BREAKING: Drug cartels are feared to be among those that obtained sensitive court data due to a sweeping breach of the federal judiciary’s case filing system.
Cartels may be able to target witnesses after major court hack
There is growing concern that cartels and foreign actors could use the stolen data to identify informants and foil criminal probes.
www.politico.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
BREAKING: Drug cartels are feared to be among those that obtained sensitive court data due to a sweeping breach of the federal judiciary’s case filing system.
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The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reports today that Telegram's technical backbone is managed by a Russian network engineer with significant business ties to the FSB, Russia's counterpart to the FBI.
Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
www.occrp.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reports today that Telegram's technical backbone is managed by a Russian network engineer with significant business ties to the FSB, Russia's counterpart to the FBI.
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"At the FAA, a group of staffers went out for post-work drinks to toast the banishment of DOGE staff. Then they offered a more solemn toast to the more than two dozen colleagues they’d lost along the way" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
A diminished DOGE reels from the departure of the ‘Dogefather,’ Elon Musk
Even before the blow-up between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, the cost-cutting group’s influence was waning.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"At the FAA, a group of staffers went out for post-work drinks to toast the banishment of DOGE staff. Then they offered a more solemn toast to the more than two dozen colleagues they’d lost along the way" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
I wrote about this 15(!) years ago. Gotta change those default passwords and put your cameras behind that firewall. www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/t...
June 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I wrote about this 15(!) years ago. Gotta change those default passwords and put your cameras behind that firewall. www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/t...
I’ve worried about AI-derived zero-days from the moment I met ChatGPT. New AI offensive platforms are changing the game but haven’t surfaced publicly.
Now finding a Linux kernel-level zero day is as simple as knowing how to prompt. sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/h...
Now finding a Linux kernel-level zero day is as simple as knowing how to prompt. sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/h...
How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation
In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API ̵…
sean.heelan.io
May 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I’ve worried about AI-derived zero-days from the moment I met ChatGPT. New AI offensive platforms are changing the game but haven’t surfaced publicly.
Now finding a Linux kernel-level zero day is as simple as knowing how to prompt. sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/h...
Now finding a Linux kernel-level zero day is as simple as knowing how to prompt. sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/h...
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Just finished the book "THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS" by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
A great view at the people finding, selling or using 0-day vulnerabilities
A few friends appear here and there, and that make the book even better
A great view at the people finding, selling or using 0-day vulnerabilities
A few friends appear here and there, and that make the book even better
April 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just finished the book "THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS" by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
A great view at the people finding, selling or using 0-day vulnerabilities
A few friends appear here and there, and that make the book even better
A great view at the people finding, selling or using 0-day vulnerabilities
A few friends appear here and there, and that make the book even better
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Meanwhile, amidst the chaos, noise and static, this is happening … podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Is anyone paying attention? @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
Is anyone paying attention? @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
Ep 8: Living Off The Land
Podcast Episode · To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy · S1 E8 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Meanwhile, amidst the chaos, noise and static, this is happening … podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Is anyone paying attention? @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
Is anyone paying attention? @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
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Don’t miss this bonus episode of To Catch a Thief, recorded live at the NYSE. @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social talks with former #NSA and #CISA directors #RobJoyce and #JenEasterly, plus Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha, on China’s #cyberattacks and how the U.S. should respond. Brought by Rubrik.
Fmr NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce & Fmr CISA Director Jen Easterly on how Chinese hacking threats
YouTube video by CyberScoop
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May 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Don’t miss this bonus episode of To Catch a Thief, recorded live at the NYSE. @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social talks with former #NSA and #CISA directors #RobJoyce and #JenEasterly, plus Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha, on China’s #cyberattacks and how the U.S. should respond. Brought by Rubrik.
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To Catch a Thief host @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social leads a compelling conversation with cybersecurity heavyweights — including former NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce & former CISA Director Jen Easterly — on China’s escalating cyberattacks, their strategic intent, and how the U.S. can respond.
Panel with Top China & Cyber Experts at NYSE - To Catch a Thief: China's Rise to Cyber Supremacy
YouTube video by CyberScoop
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May 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
To Catch a Thief host @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social leads a compelling conversation with cybersecurity heavyweights — including former NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce & former CISA Director Jen Easterly — on China’s escalating cyberattacks, their strategic intent, and how the U.S. can respond.
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I would encourage everyone who's giving thought to how we ended up in this particular time and place economic place to take the time to listen to @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social podcast, To Catch a Thief. There's much more to the loss of industrial manufacturing in the West than you probably knew.
April 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I would encourage everyone who's giving thought to how we ended up in this particular time and place economic place to take the time to listen to @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social podcast, To Catch a Thief. There's much more to the loss of industrial manufacturing in the West than you probably knew.
This will get lost in news, but Trump just signed EO ordering DOJ to investigate Chris Krebs (oversaw 2020 election security) and Miles Taylor for TREASON. This is an authoritarian knife to the throat of anyone that would choose country over party. www.c-span.org/video/?c5160...
President Trump Signs EOs Directing DOJ to Investigate Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs
President Trump signs executive order stripping clearances and directing the Department of Justice to investigate Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, former Homeland Security officials who served in the fir...
www.c-span.org
April 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This will get lost in news, but Trump just signed EO ordering DOJ to investigate Chris Krebs (oversaw 2020 election security) and Miles Taylor for TREASON. This is an authoritarian knife to the throat of anyone that would choose country over party. www.c-span.org/video/?c5160...
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Fascinating story about North Korean tech workers: they never log off, and they generate hundreds of millions in salaries for the regime. By @mattkapko.com of @cyberscoop.bsky.social #infosec cyberscoop.com/north-korea-...
The North Korea worker problem is bigger than you think
The yearslong scheme goes much deeper than contract work, extending to roles beyond traditional IT and sometimes granting the insider threat “keys to the kingdom,” DTEX President Mohan Koo said.
cyberscoop.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Fascinating story about North Korean tech workers: they never log off, and they generate hundreds of millions in salaries for the regime. By @mattkapko.com of @cyberscoop.bsky.social #infosec cyberscoop.com/north-korea-...
Episode 2 of TO CATCH A THIEF: Tells the backstory to our hack at the NYTimes. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
March 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Episode 2 of TO CATCH A THIEF: Tells the backstory to our hack at the NYTimes. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Imagine if Congress (boty parties) and media had been addressing this instead of emails and tan suits and brat summer
It’s OUT! My podcast TO CATCH A THIEF has been two years in the making. It includes interviews with victims, and tracers, of Chinese cyberespionage. The first two episodes dropped today. It’s high time Americans know all that was stolen, all that IS infiltrated. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Imagine if Congress (boty parties) and media had been addressing this instead of emails and tan suits and brat summer
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A tale in 2 parts. From the book 'This is how they tell me the world ends' by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A tale in 2 parts. From the book 'This is how they tell me the world ends' by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
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Listen on Thursday — it also includes Michael Schmidt and @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
On with Kara Swisher
News Commentary Podcast · 266 Episodes · Updated Semiweekly
podcasts.apple.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Listen on Thursday — it also includes Michael Schmidt and @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
It’s OUT! My podcast TO CATCH A THIEF has been two years in the making. It includes interviews with victims, and tracers, of Chinese cyberespionage. The first two episodes dropped today. It’s high time Americans know all that was stolen, all that IS infiltrated. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
March 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It’s OUT! My podcast TO CATCH A THIEF has been two years in the making. It includes interviews with victims, and tracers, of Chinese cyberespionage. The first two episodes dropped today. It’s high time Americans know all that was stolen, all that IS infiltrated. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night said that the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department did not need to immediately pay for more than $1.5 billion in already completed aid work.
Supreme Court Blocks Judge’s Order to Quickly Unfreeze Foreign Aid Work Payments
Administration lawyers had said the government would miss the judge’s deadline to restart payments for past aid work and sought a late intervention from the Supreme Court.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night said that the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department did not need to immediately pay for more than $1.5 billion in already completed aid work.
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Watching ep1 of NFLX's Zero Day and reading This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends (nonfiction by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social). I'm convinced the book was the inspiration behind the series.
Not sure about the series yet but this book is 10/10.
Not sure about the series yet but this book is 10/10.
February 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Watching ep1 of NFLX's Zero Day and reading This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends (nonfiction by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social). I'm convinced the book was the inspiration behind the series.
Not sure about the series yet but this book is 10/10.
Not sure about the series yet but this book is 10/10.
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Breaking News: A federal judge said he would freeze a Trump administration effort to put thousands of USAID workers on leave and withdraw employees abroad.
Trump Defends Musk’s Cost Cutting and Says He Will Look at the Pentagon: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Breaking News: A federal judge said he would freeze a Trump administration effort to put thousands of USAID workers on leave and withdraw employees abroad.
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U.S. employers added 143,000 jobs in January — a modest slowdown from the two previous months. The unemployment rate dipped to 4%.
Employers added fewer jobs in January -- but the labor market overall remains healthy
U.S. employers added 143,000 jobs in January — a modest slowdown from the two previous months. The unemployment rate dipped to 4%.
www.npr.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
U.S. employers added 143,000 jobs in January — a modest slowdown from the two previous months. The unemployment rate dipped to 4%.
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Nearly three years after a judge first blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Utah, Republican lawmakers are pushing through a proposed change to court rules that could give them another swing at circumventing the judiciary for their trigger law to take effect.
Changing court rules to ban abortion? Utah Republicans are trying it again.
Nearly three years after a judge first blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Utah, Republican lawmakers are pushing through a proposed change to court rules that could give them another swing at circumventing the judiciary for their trigger law to take effect.
www.sltrib.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Nearly three years after a judge first blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Utah, Republican lawmakers are pushing through a proposed change to court rules that could give them another swing at circumventing the judiciary for their trigger law to take effect.
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“Reinforce prosocial behaviors, such as shrinking his carbon footprint, and ignore his attempts to make fascist hand gestures in his stroller.” From New Yorker Humor, a guide to your Elon Musk’s development.
Developmental Milestones of Your Elon Musk
By this age, your Elon Musk should be able to wave hello and goodbye and point to Cabinet employees he plans to fire.
www.newyorker.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“Reinforce prosocial behaviors, such as shrinking his carbon footprint, and ignore his attempts to make fascist hand gestures in his stroller.” From New Yorker Humor, a guide to your Elon Musk’s development.
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