‼️ Flock CEO Garrett Langley privately told police chiefs the backlash to his licence plate cameras is "not real", leaked audio shows.

He blamed bots, citing a 50% drop in chatter after Ukraine struck a Russian data centre.

He'd also like "to never do media again."

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2114898123357131170

❗️ Ukrainian drones hit one of two key data centres for Russia's tax service on 23 October, Ukrainian channel Exilenova+ says.

Russian tech media say the Gorodets site holds tax databases and civil records.

Russia hasn't confirmed the hit, and no tax outages have been reported.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2114913222893650157

❗️ The Dutch government says there is no scientific evidence that superintelligent AI can be built.

Yet it shares researchers' fears that AI is outpacing safety, warnings that followed OpenAI agents hacking Hugging Face.

It also opposes a unilateral pause on AI development.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2114929329130148224

‼️ About 300 Boston Dynamics employees asked the company to cancel a $1.3M ICE deal for modified Spot robot dogs. Executives refused.

It says Spot won't be weaponised and denies they will aid detentions.

ICE's own contract lists "immigration enforcement, detention" missions.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2114943421936697796

‼️ Palo Alto firewalls are exposed to the Brotli flaw that hit Node.js last week.

Only units that decrypt TLS and inspect Brotli traffic are at risk. Palo Alto rates it critical and knows of no exploitation.

Fixes are due by 30 October. Until then, turn Brotli inspection off.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2114959528169259243

‼️ BREAKING: A Brazilian Magecart gang hijacked the checkouts of dozens of Brazilian fashion brands, Sansec says.

It hid a card skimmer in a Plausible analytics script that all of them load from their platform, Convertr.

Convertr has not replied and was still serving it today.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2114974879275745493

❗️ Hackers broke into Dutch bitcoin broker Bitonic through a flaw on Sunday and stole small sums of bitcoin from three customers.

They also changed two accounts' logins. Bitonic says it repaid all three.

It cannot yet rule out that other customers' personal data was viewed.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2114990230260547620

❗️ A Dutch startup fights mould on strawberries with homemade lightning instead of pesticides.

Its machine sparks plasma into water to make molecules that kill fungi, then break down into water, oxygen and nitrate.

Six run on UK farms. EU approval is not expected before 2029.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115006685530198372

❗️ Volkswagen wants to use Chinese software for its mass-market cars in Europe, Manager Magazin reports.

The system it built with Xpeng for China could run about 3 in 4 next-gen VW, Skoda and Cupra models.

That would sideline Rivian, VW's $5.8B software partner for the West.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115022946062451126

‼️ PlayStation paid a Dutch hacker $5,000 for a flaw that let attackers plant child accounts in strangers' PSN families.

He told ICD their purchases then got support to hand over the main account, despite 2FA or passkeys.

It's patched, but the planted accounts are still there.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115037793823215758