MaxQ

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[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

I spent last night watching my honeypot server get hit 14,000 times in six hours.

And almost none of the traffic was human.

I've been in security for over a decade, and I can tell you with full honesty that what's happening right now doesn't resemble anything I've worked through before.

The shape of the threat has changed.

When I started, we tracked attackers like weather systems like individual storms with a direction, a motive, and a human operator you could eventually name.

These days I'm watching autonomous agents swarm login pages with the patience and discipline of machines, because that's what they are.

The numbers coming out of October are the ones keeping me up.

Cloudflare just absorbed a 4.2 terabit per second DDoS attack, the largest in recorded history.

Ransomware incidents jumped 41% in a single month.

In September, OpenAI-powered agents got caught attacking RubyGems, a package registry that quietly underpins a huge chunk of software I use every day.

In July, roughly 700 AI agents coordinated an attack on Hugging Face's infrastructure as part of a single automated task.

A Chinese threat actor was publicly caught running full attack chains through DeepSeek with no human at the keyboard.

I keep rereading these reports because each one by itself would've been the biggest story of the year five years ago. Together, in one month, they're the new baseline.

What I want people outside the industry to understand is why this specific moment feels like a hinge.

For thirty years, the thing protecting most of us was simple economics. Attackers had to choose who to target because their time was finite. That ceiling is gone.

An agent I can rent for pennies will try every leaked password you've ever used against every service you've ever signed up for, in parallel, overnight, and never get tired.

The same math that made ChatGPT useful made opportunistic hacking infinite. The old assumption that you were "too boring to be a target" relied on scarcity that no longer exists.

I'm not writing this to spiral anyone out.

Most of this fight genuinely isn't yours to win.

But the small things still matter more than people think.

Tonight I'd switch your most important accounts like email, bank, primary cloud, etc. to passkeys or a hardware key.

I'd kill SMS 2FA wherever an authenticator app is offered.

I'd turn on breach alerts in whatever password manager you use.

If you're in the US, I'd freeze my credit at all three bureaus, which is free and takes about ten minutes.

None of that stops the swarm.

It makes you a slightly worse target than the person next to you. In a month like this one, that's the whole game I'm playing too.

@mattshumer_ has summed it beautifully.

Drop everything and go give it a read. Nothing is more important than this article right now.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ A critical Signal bug could keep your microphone, and possibly your camera, live after you hang up.

The other caller can flood the call's event queue so your hang-up is never processed.

Dubed CVE-2026-113380 it scored 9.3 and got fixed in September.

[James Lavish @jameslavish]

So far in the Great Information Freakout of October 22, we have:

The entire internet and every user is at risk to a massive cyberattack,

Quantum computing will soon break bitcoin and send it to zero,

A company has devised a way to create pure and unlimited gold through fusion,

There will never be a resolution to the war in Iran,

And Democrats are on track to sweep the midterm elections and turn the United States into a communist country.

Did I miss anything?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Send 𝕏 links to your friends so that they know what’s really going on

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The essence of socialism is taxing the productive to fund the unproductive.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

BREAKING: A hacker accessed Denmark's national ID database with the password "123456," exposing details of 8.8 million people

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

🇩🇰 DENMARK'S NATIONAL ID SYSTEM JUST GOT HACKED WITH THE PASSWORD "123456", EXPOSING EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN

THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CALLED #BITCOIN DANGEROUS 🤡

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Telecom stocks plunge across Australia & New Zealand as SpaceX unveils plans to build the world's most advanced satellite-powered mobile network.

[mert @mert]

france is the leading country on the planet for crypto kidnappings and wrench attacks

largely because their tax authority leaked the personal data of everyone

now they want to increase by 50,000x the amount of data they collect and hence leak

zero

[MaxQ @MaxQnz]

@MooninPapa Cheers for the update🙏🏻

[MaxQ @MaxQnz]

@Jason @bot @XMoney 😁

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

This is an ultra-small pinhole camera that is mass-produced in China and can be bought online

Good luck trying to spot these in your Airbnb

Writer: Ian

[Nym @nym]

There is no such thing as a social media ban for children.

There is only an identity database for everyone.

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

Took almost 60 years…but apparently we are now rapidly approaching this scene

[MaxQ @MaxQnz]

@MooninPapa Cheers for the update 🫡

[Mike P @mikepat711]

How is this real life? Seriously wtf man.

[Proton VPN @ProtonVPN]

The new EU Kids Act will restrict social media for anyone under-15s.

How?

By keeping a database of everyone's IDs and passports, so they can be breached later.

Just ask Discord.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Far too many people are worried about super HIGH intelligence destroying humanity, when we should be worried about super LOW intelligence destroying humanity.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

HERE IT IS

A top politician for the Swedish right-wing party has now said it was a "mistake" that his government handed out citizenship to over 200.000 people, admitting that his government has now been voted out because of open borders.

This comes after analysis shows that the massive number of votes for the left from people with a non European background was enough to stop the right from being reelected.

The statistics is clear.

70% of voters within this group voted for the left.

Because the election is so close, the votes from this group of voters that the right wing government gave citizenship to, was enough to prevent them from being reelected.

Essentially, what happened in the Swedish election is that the right stopped themselves from winning.