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Nicole Perlroth

@nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
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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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Politico @politico.com · 08/08/2025
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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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.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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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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.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10/06/2025
"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...
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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.
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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...
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Cameras May Open Up the Board Room to Hackers (Published 2012)
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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...
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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 &#821…
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Nicolas Grégoire @agarri.fr · 30/04/2025
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
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eliotp.bsky.social @eliotp.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Meanwhile, amidst the chaos, noise and static, this is happening … podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Is anyone paying attention? @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social
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Ep 8: Living Off The Land
Podcast Episode · To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy · S1 E8 · 35m
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CyberScoop @cyberscoop.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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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Fmr NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce & Fmr CISA Director Jen Easterly on how Chinese hacking threats
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CyberScoop @cyberscoop.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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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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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OldCdnGuy @oldcdnguy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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.
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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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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...
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Jeremy Kirk @jkirk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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-...
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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.
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Imagine if Congress (boty parties) and media had been addressing this instead of emails and tan suits and brat summer
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British Civilian Defence Intelligence @bcdintel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Listen on Thursday — it also includes Michael Schmidt and @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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On with Kara Swisher
News Commentary Podcast · 266 Episodes · Updated Semiweekly
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/02/2025
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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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.
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Laura @hey-laura.com · 23/02/2025
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.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/02/2025
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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Trump Defends Musk’s Cost Cutting and Says He Will Look at the Pentagon: Live Updates
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NPR @npr.org · 07/02/2025
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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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%.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 07/02/2025
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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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.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/02/2025
“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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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.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 07/02/2025
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Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts
The White House has not made a final decision yet on the large rocket.
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Alright, I’m here now. I’ve been hoping that by posting on X those who most needed the reality check would see it. But it’s a bloodbath over there. Hello blue skies…
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 07/02/2025
China, the U.S.'s third-largest trade partner, has restricted exports of the strategic metals tungsten, bismuth, indium, molybdenum and tellurium.
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Xi fires warning shot at Trump
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Truly, a must read. We have seen this playbook before. “The Twitter Files were just the dress rehearsal. The real performance is about to begin, and this time, it threatens to undermine crucial government functions from international aid to public health infrastructure.”
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Biometric voice identification experts did an analysis comparing Elon Musk’s voice to Adrian Dittman’s. They found that, while not impossible, it’s highly unlikely (0.5%) they aren’t the same person. This is Exhibit A for my kids when I tell them money doesn’t buy happiness.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
“Adrian Dittman” is Elon Musk, let this tweet sink in.
Musk praising himself from his alt-account
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 29/12/2024
*Someone* seems keen to delete Wikipedia's article on Appin, the cyber mercenary firm we wrote about last year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Appin (company) (2nd nomination) - Wikipedia
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My thoughts exactly…
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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A tribute to Jimmy Carter: From 3.5 million Guinea Worm cases to just 7 caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/tribute-to...
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Tribute to Carter's public health work
From 3.5 million Guinea Worm cases to just 7
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The least self-aware person on the planet.
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
so shel silverstein anticipated ai?
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
It hurts.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 26/12/2024
Japan Airlines halts ticket sales after a cyberattack hit its network equipment, causing delays to more than 40 flights and says flight safety was not impacted (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
State of Emergency in California over bird flu. Happy Christmas.
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Gov. Newsom declares emergency in California after CDC confirms severe case of bird flu in Louisiana — Los Angeles Times
As the CDC confirmed severe illness in a Louisiana patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency related to the virus.
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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
CDC confirms first known severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. www.statnews.com/2024/12/18/h...
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CDC confirms first known severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S.
The U.S. has confirmed its first known severe human infection of H5N1 bird flu, in a person in Louisiana.
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 18/12/2024
Powerful story from @cbc-news.bsky.social where host Adrienne Arsenault interviews dissidents from Iran and China, along with experts @rondeibert.bsky.social and @noura.bsky.social about the growing issue of foreign governments’ intimidation of exiled dissidents in 🇨🇦. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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How foreign governments go after people in Canada
Activists from countries including Iran and China say their former governments are trying to silence them in Canada. CBC chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault takes a closer look at the issue of fore...
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
True story. Please use Signal, WhatsApp for sensitive calls and messages until further instruction.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It is absolutely wild that LLM vendors have tried to file DMCA claims against researchers testing LLMs that the vendors themselves trained on unlicensed copyrighted material. Glad to see that they're losing DMCA as a weapon. www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and...
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A Partial Win for AI Red-Teaming from the Copyright Office
The U.S. Copyright Office clarified legal rules for AI trustworthiness research and red-teaming under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and AI red-teamers have cause to celebrate, h...
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Krugman's best pieces: • The babysitting co-op slate.com/business/199... • On modeling web.mit.edu/krugman/www/... • Japan liquidity trap web.mit.edu/krugman/www/... • on zoning www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o... archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog... • how I work web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
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THE FALL AND RISE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
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Tom Watson @guitarwatson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Krugman unbound.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Financed by the Saudis.
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🚨 If you’re not using Signal, you are not taking the Salt Typhoon (PRC) cyberattacks seriously enough. But if you’re a nat sec reporter, soon to be former USG official, on a revenge list, you would be an idiot not to get a Cape.co phone right now. 🚨 I use one. It’s the *only* secure mobile co rn.
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Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Wow. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot at 6:45AM this morning in midtown Manhattan. He’s been dealing with one of the worst ransomware attacks on record. Looks very targeted. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
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Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare CEO, Is Fatally Shot in Midtown Manhattan: Live Updates
The executive, Brian Thompson, was shot in the chest in what people briefed on the investigations said appeared to be a targeted attack.
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The Hacker formerly known as ‘Speely’ @speelbarrow.speely.net · 04/12/2024
I went to a computer security conference recently and got the chance to try to force some basic GPT chatbots to give me access to private information. And it was *literally* like taking candy from a baby. They should not be anywhere near anyone’s sensitive information.
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