Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

US Intelligence Leaks, SwaaS, and OpenAI bug bounty - April 8th - 14th - This Week in Security

  Tikka is back as your editor for this week in security. A lot has happened in the past week and I will start with the biggest story of Discord Leaks. US Intelligence Leaks   A...
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Apr 28, 2023

There's a whole bunch of stuff to unwrap in the first two parts of this article. At the end of 2019 the US Commerce Department blacklisted NSO Group, and in December 2019 levied sanctions against the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences for their assistance to the Chinese government in the development of brain-control weaponry. For the US Commerce Department blacklist to be important, you need to know that a commerce department blacklist is a prohibition (among other things) of doing business in the country.  NSO Group spyware had been sold to United States police agencies and they were using it in conjunction with a foreign military (Iran and China) that had owned that **bleep** really hard.  One thing NSO Group spyware cannot do is place accurate or realistic voice calls containing your voice or my voice.  The voice modelling alone to do that and target a person is a major privacy event that would need public legislation, and it isn't feasible with the current complete lack of a public face of this for local police to have access to specific individual's voice model data, so it wasn't done by them.  It is cyberwarfare and is completely a military event. This was followed March 27th, 2023 by an executive order from President Joe Biden prohibiting the use of commercial spyware by United States government agencies that poses a threat to national security.

We're not safe, and it's not cool to ignore the little fiddly technical **bleep** that we see all the time (some of us more than others), because there's quantum entanglement gear that is combined with the brain-measurement gear put forward by the CIA in their sanctions against the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences.

This cyberwarfare from the visible tip of the NSO Group and "AI" voice calls iceberg down to the obvious quantum physics nature (deniable in every way) of the cyberwarfare gear needs to be taken into account by all of us, and proper communication channels opened with the FBI or military intelligence (the Director of National Intelligence is a good place to go or your state's military department). We exist because they are safe, and that's it.