Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail digest of posts from Bruce Schneier’s Schneier on Security blog.
Recent Issues
October 15, 2026
In this issue:
- Fake CAPTCHA Scams
- How Candidates Could Use AI for Good
- Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs?
- Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras
- GPT-6 Astra Breaks an Old Enigma Message
- Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior
- Malicious npm Packages That Evade Defenses
- On Anthropic’s AI Misuse Report
- New Attack Against RSA
- Using Device Linking to Eavesdrop on WhatsApp and Signal
- I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior
- Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform
- How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools
- Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida
- Another Historic Cipher Falls to AI
- Possible Vulnerability in Apple’s Automatic Reboot
- Apple’s Verified Photography System
- How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators
- FBI Arrests Suspect in FBI-Hacking Case
- Cyberattack on Connected Fridges in France
- The Future of AI Cryptanalysis
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
September 15, 2026
In this issue:
- Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials
- LLMs and Contextual Integrity
- ICE Collecting DNA Samples
- Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras
- Detailed Timeline of OpenAI’s Cyberattack on Hugging Face
- More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity Challenges
- AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code
- Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
- Black Hat State of Security Vendors
- Spyware for Babies
- LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams
- AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet
- Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing
- Is Someone Hacking DoD Refrigerators?
- Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator
- Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials
- What’s the Scam?
- Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors
- AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns
- Researching Employment Scams
- AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networks
- Security Vulnerability in a Voting System
- Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent
- Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras
- Stealing AI Reasoning Traces
- AIs as Modern Genies
- Claude Fable Solves a Historical Cipher
- Driver’s License Data for Sale
- AIs Compress Exploit Timeline
- Cliff Stoll’s DEF CON Talk
- My Talk at DEF CON
- Microsoft’s Patching
- Using AI for Weapons Development
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
August 15, 2026
In this issue:
- A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera
- Protecting Privacy in an AI Era
- Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System
- On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras
- MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance
- First-Person Identity Theft Story
- End-to-End Encryption and "Going Dark"
- Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
- Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van
- Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company
- Measuring LLMs' Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis
- Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot
- Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue
- Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide
- American Being Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone Before Handing It Over to Border Officials
- Facial Recognition at Madison Square Garden
- Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection
- The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle
- More on the OpenAI Agent’s Attack on Hugging Face
- Some Claude Chats Are Searchable on Google
- Iran Cyberattacks Against Minnesota Water Systems
- Vulnerabilities in Car Anti-Theft Device
- Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems
- ICE Is Buying Access to Credit Card Records
- Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
- AI for Military Support
- AI Genie in the Wild
- Prompt Injections for Defense
- Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems
- If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements
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