Crypto-Gram
March 15, 2025

by Bruce Schneier
Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School schneier@schneier.com https://www.schneier.com

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Atlas of Surveillance
Story About Medical Device Security
Device Code Phishing
An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code
Implementing Cryptography in AI Systems
More Research Showing AI Breaking the Rules
North Korean Hackers Steal $1.5B in Cryptocurrency
UK Demanded Apple Add a Backdoor to iCloud
"Emergent Misalignment" in LLMs
Trojaned AI Tool Leads to Disney Hack
CISA Identifies Five New Vulnerabilities Currently Being Exploited
The Combined Cipher Machine
Rayhunter: Device to Detect Cellular Surveillance
Thousands of WordPress Websites Infected with Malware
Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea Intelligence Sharing
RIP Mark Klein
TP-Link Router Botnet
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