Kim Zetter

@KimZetter94k followers

Journalist - cyber/national security. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon.

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1	Jun 20, '23	Former OceanGate employee was fired after raising concerns about sub's worthiness to descend extreme depths and refusing to greenlight manned tests of early models. He was director	194×	2.1M	9.5k	2.1k	742
2	Mar 21, '24	Newly discovered vuln in Apple M-series chips lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs. "The flaw—a side channel allowing end-to-end key extractions when Apple chips run...wide	136×	1.5M	4.7k	1.4k	2.1k
3	Jul 24, '23	For 25+ yrs police/military/intel agencies/critical infrastructr in 120 nations relied on TETRA radio standard to secure critical comms. But Dutch researchers examined secret algor	51.8×	557k	1.7k	728	501
4	Aug 18, '23	@lmillernpr he turned himself in?	50.1×	538k	20k	63	12
5	Jun 20, '23	Lochridge discovered the viewing window on front of sub "was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers...to...4,000 meters.	47.6×	511k	2.3k	322	68
6	May 8, '24	Microsoft created an air-gapped ChatGPT for spies to use. Most generative AIs use the cloud, but US intel community wanted ability to run queries on classified info and not have it	46.1×	495k	2.3k	366	785
7	Jul 20, '23	Oh my. Kevin Mitnick has died. "Kevin David Mitnick, 59, died peacefully on Sunday, July 16, 2023, after valiantly battling pancreatic cancer for more than a year."	44.6×	479k	1.8k	685	82
8	Oct 19, '23	Thousands of IT workers contracting with US companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea to fund its weapons programs. They worked remot	42.2×	454k	1.3k	626	273
9	Jul 17, '23	Millions of emails intended for US military - including highly sensitive info - have been misdirected to Mali instead, due to people typing .ml in address instead of .mil. This, de	36.5×	392k	999	316	143
10	Oct 22, '23	This is such a strange showing for the Five Eyes SIGINT partnership. The one time they come out in force publicly - when the world is embroiled in two major wars - is to condemn Ch	28×	300k	1.3k	176	101
11	Jul 3, '23	Great piece on Titan sub; tons of new info about design flaws, engineers in their teens/20s who were paid $15/hour, a thruster installed backwards, and the sub had "dropped weights	20.7×	223k	899	278	236
12	Oct 5, '20	Georgetown law school has created a fact sheet for all 50 states explaining the laws barring unauthorized private militia groups and what to do if groups of armed individuals show	19.9×	0	8k	6.2k	901
13	Jun 20, '23	David Lochridge identified numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns with the sub and offered corrective action/suggestions. He was particularly concerned about lack of te	17.3×	186k	1.4k	181	30
14	Sep 25, '23	This is a bit deceiving. What 60 Minutes doesn’t say is that US Aid (which has existed for 60 years) has been giving financial aid to Ukraine (and other countries) for decades — wi	17.1×	184k	2.4k	699	54
15	Feb 4, '25	A "DOGE worker named Marko Elez who has admin privileges on Treasury systems that control 95% of gov payments, including Social Security checks/tax refunds, "has already made exten	15.6×	167k	2.3k	1.4k	361
16	May 13, '21	.@cnn has now confirmed what I wrote 4 days ago, that CP shut down pipeline because they couldn't bill customers. Per CNN: "The company halted operations because its billing system	13.9×	0	7.2k	3.4k	297
17	Apr 24, '24	"My husband’s LexisNexis report had a breakdown of the 203 trips we had taken in the car since Jan, including the distance, the start and end times, and how often we hard-braked or	13.6×	146k	783	191	184
18	Dec 14, '20	Someone asked me to provide a simple description of what this SolarWinds hack is all about. So for anyone who is confused by the technical details, here's a thread with a simplifie	12.7×	0	6.1k	2.8k	806
19	Feb 21, '25	Teenage DOGE worker Edward Coristine is grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov who was an officer in Line X - the technical espionage division of the KGB - and became a double	8.9×	96k	1.6k	793	245
20	Feb 20, '25	Two DOGE workers are now at CISA (DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency): Edward Coristine, a 19-yr-old known as Big Balls, and Kyle Schutt, a 38-yr-old software eng	7.1×	76k	833	568	162
21	Mar 25, '19	ASUS, one of world’s largest computer makers, installed backdoor on thousands of customer computers last yr after hackers compromised its software update tool. The file was signed	6.6×	0	2.4k	2.2k	109
22	May 20, '19	Every night, several times a night, Uber and Lyft drivers at Reagan National Airport simultaneously turn off their ride share apps for a minute or two to trick the app into thinkin	6.6×	0	3.2k	1.5k	101
23	Dec 11, '17	Does anyone else find it concerning that @netflix is datamining subscriber viewing records for laughs? Makes you wonder what other ways staffers are using this data and to what lev	6.4×	0	3.9k	1.6k	0
24	Jun 3, '20	If you're wondering why DEA and US Marshal's Service have been given authority to conduct covert surveillance of protestors, it's likely because they have planes outfitted with Dir	6.3×	0	2.5k	2.1k	188
25	Feb 6, '25	U.S. court has blocked Musk's DOGE access to Treasury Dept systems until it can determine whether DOGE is a legal government entity.	5.6×	61k	1.1k	333	59
26	Jul 21, '21	Amnesty says it never claimed list was NSO: "Amnesty International has never presented this list as a 'NSO Pegasus Spyware List', although some of the world's media may have done s	5.3×	0	2.2k	1.2k	121
27	Mar 13, '20	Oh wow. That passenger who boarded the Jet Blue plane to Miami after receiving a text telling him he tested positive for the coronavirus has been banned for life by the airline f	5.0×	0	3.3k	983	34
28	Nov 11, '20	NOTe: This is a risk-limiting audit. It’s NOT a recount being done to appease Trump. It was always planned that Georgia would do a risk-limiting audit of one statewide race this el	4.9×	0	2.9k	966	102
29	Jan 22, '21	Former security technician for home security company ADT admitted he secretly accessed customers' home security cameras more than 9,600 times over 4+ yrs, particularly in homes of	4.9×	0	1.7k	1.2k	193
30	Oct 3, '21	Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, a data scientist who secretly copied thousands of internal documents and leaked them to the WSJ, says Facebook is lying to the public about m	4.5×	0	2.6k	1.1k	138
31	Dec 14, '20	I have report from Microsoft about SolarWinds hack, including IoCs. Excerpts in this thread: "Microsoft security researchers recently discovered a sophisticated attack where an adv	4.4×	0	2.3k	880	265
32	Sep 2, '19	Exclusive: How Secret Dutch Mole Aided U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet Cyber Attack on Iran. For yrs an enduring mystery has surrounded the Stuxnet attack: How did US/Israel get the malware o	4.2×	0	1.9k	1.2k	274
33	Sep 21, '18	For months, ES&S refused to tell me or @RonWyden how many of its customers had remote-access software pcAnywhere installed on their election-management systems. ES&S would	4.2×	0	1.4k	1.5k	39
34	Nov 26, '19	In response to @twitter announcing plans to delete inactive accounts and make the handles available for others to use, the @internetarchive is offering help with archiving the acco	4.2×	0	1.4k	1.7k	58
35	Sep 6, '21	Tom Brady waiting 7 months to disclose that he got COVID after not wearing mask at Super Bowl parade, and dropping the news casually as if it would not have made a huge difference	4.1×	0	3.6k	517	36
36	Oct 24, '20	The photos from this operation to eradicate murder hornets in Washington state are something.	4.1×	0	2.5k	625	114
37	May 13, '19	WhatsApp discovered in early May that attackers were using zero day exploit developed by NSO Group that installed malware on a user's iPhone or Android phone simply by calling them	4.1×	0	1.5k	1.5k	75
38	Feb 4, '21	Russian doctor who treated Navalny after poisoning has died suddenly in the intensive care unit where Navalny was treated. Reports say his blood pressure shot up to 250 suddenly, b	3.9×	0	2k	965	91
39	Aug 8, '19	Exclusive: For yrs ES&S, top voting machine maker in US, has been saying its vote tabulators and election-management systems are not connected to the internet. That appears not	3.7×	0	1.3k	1.2k	71
40	Feb 22, '19	Man-in-the-middle attack as executed by a 5-year-old	3.7×	0	2.6k	905	25
41	Aug 23, '22	It was clear when Mudge left Twitter something was wrong. Now he’s blowing whistle. Says company doesn’t properly delete data, too many staff access central controls/sensitive info	3.3×	0	1.8k	732	204
42	Feb 27, '22	Ireland taking back its planes. Irish leasing companies expected to terminate all leasing deals for Russian aircraft. “Most commercial aircraft in Russia are leased…has the potenti	3.1×	0	2.2k	631	59
43	Sep 30, '18	I’ve been writing about election security for more than a decade, but this is probably the most important story I’ve written about it to date @NYTmag	3.1×	0	1.4k	867	161
44	Dec 14, '20	Here is a list of some of the customers who use the software made by the software maker (their name is SolarWinds). All of these were potentially compromised.	3.1×	0	2k	610	63
45	Mar 14, '19	Exclusive: @DARPA is building a $10 million secure voting system, fully open source, that it will bring to the @defcon Voting Village this year and next to let hackers/researchers	2.9×	0	1.4k	758	44
46	Dec 14, '20	The hackers did this back in March and their activity was only recently discovered - this means they have been inside gov systems all these months stealing data and spying on gov w	2.7×	0	2.1k	482	27
47	Mar 25, '21	How it started / How it's going	2.7×	0	2k	551	47
48	Feb 15, '19	Facebook tracks former employees deemed a threat by using location data collected thru Facebook's apps/websites. "Other companies keep similar lists of threats, but Facebook is uni	2.6×	0	925	819	56
49	Feb 8, '19	The Swiss are launching a new online voting system. They want YOU to try to hack it. They'll pay 20,000 Swiss francs if you manage to manipulate votes; 30,000-50,000 if you can man	2.5×	0	1k	813	40
50	Oct 25, '19	Does Reality Winner deserve a more severe punishment for exposing Russian hacking operations than Russian agent Maria Butina who was an active participant in the Russian influence	2.4×	0	1.1k	745	15
51	Dec 18, '20	New: SolarWinds hackers did test-run of spy operation in Oct 2019, when malicious SolarWinds files were first downloaded by customers. That version didn't have backdoor in it, howe	2.4×	0	1.2k	576	158
52	Mar 6, '19	House Oversight is investigating Georgia Gov Brian Kemp on voter suppression that occurred in GA under his watch. They want him to hand over communications and docs relating to vot	2.3×	0	1.2k	642	6
53	Sep 21, '18	In original NYTmag story I wrote, ES&S told me it had "never" installed remote-access software on any election-management system. Then it told Wyden the software was installed	2.2×	0	849	799	26
54	May 18, '20	Cellphone location data shows anti-lockdown protesters travel hundreds of miles and cross state borders to attend protests, potentially carrying the infection back to their home lo	2.2×	0	887	627	38
55	Aug 15, '19	Federal court bans paperless voting machines in Georgia for 2020 elections and beyond - acitivists have been fighting for this for years - “the Court PROHIBITS any use of the GEMS/	2.1×	0	1.3k	544	16
56	Feb 21, '18	For years election officials have been saying voting machines can't be remotely hacked because they're not connected to the internet. It turns out that's not entirely true. Here's	2.1×	0	894	735	7
57	Mar 2, '22	Russian millionaire Alex Konanykhin, who fled Russia yrs ago after alleged kidnapping attempt by rogue KGB agents, has vowed to pay $1 million to any Russian officer or officers wh	2.1×	0	1.3k	430	29
58	Jan 16, '21	Ret. Gen McChrystal sees parallels between Capitol insurrectionists and and angry Arab youths who joined al-Qaida. "I think we’re much further along in this radicalization process,	2.0×	0	1.1k	471	69
59	Jan 23, '21	Looks like FBI got sweeping court order for cell tower logs and subscriber info for any phone near Capitol during insurrection: "an agent [told] them investigators were tracking pe	2.0×	0	1.2k	451	35
60	Jan 31, '21	SolarWinds hackers who breached federal court system “probably gained access to the vast trove of confidential information hidden in sealed documents, including trade secrets, espi	2.0×	0	955	570	63
61	Jan 5, '21	Thinking a lot about Raffensperger saying he only leaked phone call because Trump tweeted false info about it. Had Trump not tweeted, Raffensperger says he would have been fine kee	1.9×	0	1.6k	291	24
62	Oct 29, '22	“hacked messages are also believed to have included highly sensitive discussions with senior international foreign ministers about the war in Ukraine.” Obvious question is why was	1.9×	0	1.2k	379	75
63	Dec 14, '20	The maker of software that is used in the highest echelons of gov, including the White House and NSA, was compromised by attackers who slipped malicious code into the software make	1.8×	0	1.6k	257	24
64	Dec 14, '20	What does this mean for average person and their data? This is a national security hack conducted by a nation-state (Russia) and focused on high-value targets/data. While it's poss	1.8×	0	1.5k	197	10
65	Dec 26, '19	Three years after 2016 election, we still don't know extent of Russian hacking efforts. Gov reports say Russians hacked an elections tech company & installed malware on its net	1.8×	0	784	516	96
66	Nov 10, '18	An "electric safety incident" was reported by PG&E around 6:15am near where the Camp Fire started. Technicians on aerial patrol saw damage to a transmission tower about one mil	1.8×	0	752	551	19
67	Oct 8, '22	Was asked to give keynote presentation on election security but was told it couldn’t be partisan. I said I’d have to mention the insider threat posed by election 2020 deniers and t	1.8×	0	1.4k	286	24
68	Nov 1, '18	Georgia's paperless touchscreen voting machines, purchased in 2002, have not been updated with new software since 2007; since Diebold, the company that made the machines got out of	1.7×	0	697	508	11
69	Nov 6, '20	Taking a moment to remember this momentous court ruling last yr that finally banned paperless, non-auditable voting machines that were used in Georgia since 2002. Georgia, and Penn	1.7×	0	1.3k	342	27
70	Dec 14, '20	That malicious code, once it infected customer systems, opened a backdoor into those systems and contacted the hackers to let them know the door was open for them to surreptitiousl	1.6×	0	1.5k	204	12
71	Oct 26, '18	Straight-party voting causes problems in some jurisdiction in every election. I’d advise voters to not vote this way but make selections one-by-one on your own instead of relying o	1.6×	0	631	564	1
72	Feb 9, '21	Beverly Hills police officer starts playing music on mobile phone when he realizes activist is live-streaming their encounter - presumably because the copyrighted music will get ac	1.5×	0	841	267	59
73	Oct 3, '18	Mark Judge's out-of-print, hard-to-get book "Wasted" is selling on Amazon for $1,949.99. But @internetarchive is currently scanning a copy of the book and will have the text availa	1.5×	0	996	320	8
74	Dec 14, '20	But there's a lot that's still unknown about the operation -- who all was compromised and what data or secrets were stolen.	1.5×	0	1.4k	146	10
75	Feb 4, '20	The Iowa caucus debacle is about rapid reporting of results, not about voting itself. Please keep those two things separate. The votes are backed on paper. The problem was the deli	1.4×	0	985	317	3
76	Jul 21, '21	So Amnesty is essentially saying now that the list contains the kind of people NSO's clients would ordinarily be interested in spying on, but the list isn't specifically a list o	1.4×	0	785	358	10
77	Dec 7, '21	When an AWS outage takes out your caffeine supply chain	1.4×	0	1.2k	196	28
78	Nov 11, '20	Journalists, if you’re going to write about this, please understand the difference between a recount and an audit. A risk-limiting audit does not recount all the ballots. Officials	1.4×	0	1.1k	236	3
79	Sep 20, '20	His right-kick ball-change move is on point.	1.4×	0	1.5k	65	7
80	Nov 2, '19	8th-grade girl wins award for solution that fixes driver's blind spot in cars. She placed webcam behind pillar that's blocking driver's view; cam sends video to projector that proj	1.4×	0	938	268	29
81	Jun 25, '19	The tweet that launched $12,500 (and counting) in donations to RAICES from infosec people who want to see Matt dye his hair blue with his son - money is going to Refugee and Immigr	1.3×	0	1.1k	263	4
82	Feb 22, '20	Seems like my tweet yesterday wasn't wrong. I'd suggested that sources for story that Russia was backing Sanders likely came from White House and not intel community and was intend	1.3×	0	719	353	14
83	Oct 14, '22	"Though Musk has received widespread acclaim and thanks for responding to requests for Starlink service to Ukraine...in reality, the vast majority of the 20,000 terminals have rece	1.3×	0	1.1k	225	20
84	Mar 23, '22	Okta said just now in zoom call that 366 customers were affected by breach	1.3×	0	933	219	56
85	Apr 3, '21	How does this keep happening in the military and no one is seeing this as a widespread problem that requires a congressional hearing and accountability?	1.3×	0	1.1k	188	7
86	Aug 23, '18	"if she was in charge of [Steve Jobs'] billions, [his daughter] says, she would give it away to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — a curious twist given her father’s epic riva	1.2×	0	957	196	22
87	Feb 23, '21	NASA coders hid an Easter egg in the colored pattern of Persevere’s parachute “We identified a 10 bit pattern in the circles” of Persevere’s parachute that spells out “Dare Mighty	1.2×	0	749	285	34
88	Mar 21, '22	Belarus journalist confirms what had been tweeted over the weekend (but was unconfirmed at the time) -- that railway workers in Belarus sabotaged the railway between Belarus and Uk	1.2×	0	990	210	7
89	Oct 4, '21	So the day after a big and important interview about Facebook occurs, the internet is talking about Facebook's outage and routing problems and not about the whistleblower and the c	1.2×	0	796	259	14
90	Jul 8, '20	12-yr-old girl creates device to detect baby left in car. Senses when baby is in seat and monitors car temp. If temp is >102 F, sounds alarm, displays LCD warning and txts paren	1.1×	0	811	213	14
91	Oct 18, '21	Let's talk about insidiousness of QR codes in restaurants. Was at 5-star hotel restaurant in Aspen frequented by CEOs/gov officials/celebs. Waiter pointed us to QRcode for menu. Wh	1.1×	0	784	115	45
92	Oct 24, '20	View post on X	1.1×	0	825	67	18
93	Aug 17, '20	Please stop saying that because voting machines aren't connected to internet they're unhackable. First, some voting machines are connected to internet. Second, any computer is ha	1.1×	0	741	236	7
94	Jun 15, '20	Yet again, Jon Stewart is the smartest person in the room. “I still believe that the root of this problem is the society that we’ve created that contains this schism, and we don’t	1.0×	0	733	220	14
95	Apr 27	Journalist covering cybersecurity/national security. Wrote book on Stuxnet - Countdown to Zero Day. Longtime @WIRED staffer now writing independently @WIRED @nytimes @politico @was	1.0×	11k	68	24	18
96	Jun 10, '20	It's come to this - José Andrés needing to bring disaster relief to elections	1.0×	0	658	269	3
97	Mar 8, '20	@fuzztech @MSterling27 Are you sure he/she says please?	1.0×	0	1.2k	24	0
98	Jan 23, '19	People today were ridiculing @AOC for this seemingly stupid claim. But what she really said was: “Algorithms are still made by human beings and those algorithms are still pegged to	1.0×	0	694	199	7
99	May 13, '21	Here's what I wrote in my two stories on Sunday and Monday about the billing system and why it was likely the reason for CP taking down the pipeline:	1.0×	0	690	199	35
100	Nov 7, '20	Apparently everyone is doing Zoom TV interviews wrong. You’re supposed to plant Easter eggs in the background.	0.8×	0	771	83	11
101	Nov 3, '20	Hat tip to all of you out there who are waking up early this morning to go serve as a poll worker. 👏🗳	0.7×	0	685	94	0

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