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Decipher Files · Archive
20 long-form analyses across cybersecurity breaches and Applied AI events. Hand-authored, primary-source documented, career-implication framed.
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November 2022 (chatbot interaction); February 2024 (ruling)
The Air Canada chatbot ruling is the Applied AI accountability case that ended the argument over whether a company can disclaim its own chatbot. In February 2024, the British Columbia Civil Resolution…
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March-July 2024
AT&T disclosed two distinct cybersecurity incidents in 2024 within four months of each other. The March 2024 disclosure covered approximately 73 million current and former customer records released on…
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February 2024-Present
ConnectWise disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in ScreenConnect (CVE-2024-1709 authentication bypass, CVSS 10.0; CVE-2024-1708 path traversal, CVSS 8.4) on February 19, 2024. Within 24 hours of di…
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August 2022-March 2023
LastPass disclosed two separate intrusions across August and December 2022. The second exfiltrated encrypted customer vaults plus unencrypted metadata. Subsequent crypto-currency theft losses traced b…
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September 2023
ALPHV/BlackCat affiliate Scattered Spider used a 10-minute vishing call against MGM Resorts' IT help desk to obtain credentials for a privileged Okta account, then encrypted the casino operator's infr…
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November 2023-April 2024
APT29 (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, tracked by Microsoft as Midnight Blizzard) compromised a Microsoft non-production legacy tenant in November 2023 via password spray against an account with…
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September-November 2023
Okta disclosed in October 2023 that an attacker had used a stolen credential to access its customer support case-management system, then read HAR files uploaded by customers that contained valid sessi…
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February-June 2024
A Chinese-owned domain operator acquired polyfill.io in February 2024 and silently injected malicious JavaScript into the polyfill.js script, which approximately 100,000 websites loaded directly into…
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Disclosed October 2024-Present
PRC state-sponsored actor Salt Typhoon (also tracked as Earth Estries, GhostEmperor) compromised at least nine major US telecommunications carriers including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Lumen, and Charte…
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September 2019-December 2020
APT29 (Russian SVR-aligned, tracked as Cozy Bear / NOBELIUM) compromised SolarWinds's Orion build system and shipped malicious updates to roughly 18,000 customer organizations. The campaign reset the…
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May-July 2023
Storm-0558 (Chinese state-aligned, tracked by Microsoft) used a stolen Microsoft consumer signing key to forge Azure AD authentication tokens against approximately 25 Microsoft 365 customer email tena…
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February-November 2024
ALPHV/BlackCat encrypted Change Healthcare's claims-processing infrastructure on February 21, 2024, halting prescription processing, claims adjudication, and provider payments across roughly one-third…
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May-July 2023
Cl0p exploited CVE-2023-34362 in Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer to steal data from approximately 2,500 organizations through a single managed-file-transfer dependency. The breach is the canonical…
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April-July 2024
ShinyHunters and affiliated actors exfiltrated data from approximately 165 Snowflake customer tenants by reusing credentials harvested from prior infostealer-malware infections against accounts that h…
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2021-March 2024
A multi-year social-engineering campaign by an actor operating as 'Jia Tan' (jiatXX-aliased GitHub identities) inserted a sophisticated backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into xz-utils, a foundational Linux com…
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May 2023-Present
CISA, NSA, FBI, and Five Eyes partners disclosed in May 2023 (and re-disclosed with materially expanded scope in February 2024) that the People's Republic of China state-sponsored cyber actor tracked…
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January 2025
The DeepSeek-R1 release is the Applied AI inflection point that challenged frontier AI's competitive moat. On January 27, 2025, Nvidia stock dropped roughly 17 percent in a single session, erasing app…
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March 2024 (adoption) through August 2027 (full application)
The EU AI Act is the Applied AI regulatory framework that established the first cross-sector legal regime for artificial intelligence. The European Parliament adopted the Act on March 13, 2024, the Co…
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September 2024
The OpenAI o1 release is the Applied AI capability shift that introduced reasoning models with adjustable thinking time. In September 2024, OpenAI released o1-preview and o1-mini, models that allocate…
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March 2023 to May 2023
The Samsung ChatGPT data leak is the Applied AI shadow-IT case study that prompted enterprise bans on consumer LLMs. In April 2023, Samsung Electronics confirmed that engineers had pasted proprietary…