Kevin Poireault

Tech reporter @InfosecurityMag • @coupecircuit_ | 🌍⚽🥊

[Kevin Poireault @leekthehack]

📸 Image credit: @gbillois / @wavestone_

[Kevin Poireault @leekthehack]

As @OpenAI and @Anthropic expand access to their most advanced LLMs, w/ evidence of their capabilities to autonomously find vulns at scale, the way organizations patch flaws is evolving.

Who will shoulder the burden: the users or the software producers?

https://t.co/IuHSRLB4Yu

[Infosecurity Magazine @InfosecurityMag]

The pod is ready for @Infosecurity!

Come & find us at Stand D30 throughout the show: whether you have a story to share, want to discuss the latest industry trends, or simply fancy a chat, we'd love to meet you!

P.S. we'll have some exclusive- but limited!- Infosecurity Magazine merch available too🛍️

Register here: https://t.co/BKMN4A5da8

[Kevin Poireault @leekthehack]

NEW: @owasp to launch Agentic Research Council at @Infosecurity Europe 2026 to bridge AI security research gaps.

Announcement: June 4 with co-lead @JohnSotiro.

https://t.co/BMe1JpIroG

[John Sakellariadis @johnnysaks130]

New: The Pentagon’s cyber-warfighting arm is launching a new task force to speed the adoption of cutting-edge AI tools with powerful hacking capabilities, according to three people with knowledge of the effort.

W/@magmill95 and @jacob_wendler

https://t.co/mQ1boUIkpT

[Kevin Poireault @leekthehack]

NEW: @Microsoft has cracked down on Fox Tempest, a cyber threat actor that fueled Rhysida ransomware attacks.

It is now working with the @FBI and @Europol to uncover the identity of people behind the group.

https://t.co/ih7CSgU0bi

[Coupe Circuit 📴 @coupecircuit_]

🇺🇬 Finalement, Museveni dit oui à Starlink

Le gouvernement ougandais accorde à Starlink le droit d’obtenir une licence dans le pays après des tensions durant l’élection présidentielle de janvier.

🔄L'actu de la censure internet | 12-18 mai 2026

https://t.co/hymizrLBOf

[Kevin Poireault @leekthehack]

NEW: @INTERPOL_Cyber has coordinated a first-of-its-kind cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa that led to 201 arrests.

https://t.co/n0LgI7RPD2

[Kevin Poireault @leekthehack]

OpenAI has announced Daybreak, a new initiative based on its frontier LLMs and its AI-coding assistant, Codex, to help developers build secure software from the ground up.

https://t.co/Zao2VsG13r

[Coupe Circuit 📴 @coupecircuit_]

L'arrivée d'Internet Pro en Iran est la nouvelle pierre à l'édifice d'un internet à plusieurs vitesses ou "internet de classe".

Un système que l’@IranHrm appelle "apartheid numérique". On vous explique comment ça marche.

https://t.co/NXqjWE0UAt

[Coupe Circuit 📴 @coupecircuit_]

🇷🇺 Nouveau blackout pour le Jour de la Victoire

L'internet mobile a été bloqué à Moscou et Saint-Pétersbourg du 5 au 9 mai, date de la commémoration de la signature du second acte de capitulation de l'Allemagne nazie.

Courts-circuits | 5-11 mai 2026

https://t.co/hMvvj7q4Wq

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

The Google Threat Intelligence Group has detected the first known instance of a threat actor using an AI-developed zero-day exploit in the wild. While the attackers planned a wide-scale strike, our proactive counter-discovery may have prevented that from happening. This finding is part of our new report on AI-powered threats.

[The Moscow Times @MoscowTimes]

The Digital Ministry confirmed restrictions were introduced in the Russian capital on Tuesday morning, stating that they were a temporary measure.
https://t.co/Y6qC41PB87

[Coupe Circuit 📴 @coupecircuit_]

La @rightscon aurait dû commencer aujourd'hui. Et Coupe Circuit aurait dû être à Lusaka depuis hier.

Malheureusement, le plus grand rdv des défenseurs des droits numériques a dû être annulé au tout dernier moment.

On vous explique tout ici: https://t.co/Hjb91b8DTc

[Vas Panagiotopoulos @criticalvas]

“Under pressure to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, Europol built and operated a shadow data analysis platform containing large volumes of sensitive information, which operated without key legal and technical safeguards.”

https://t.co/hzkagoPdnd

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

2/ Earlier today the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a statement by Special Rapporteur @Ginitastar calling out #Zambia's "de facto cancelation" of #RightsCon.

Doesn't mince words on the human rights violations by Zambia.

https://t.co/Z6OMRNrScq

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

Just now: US @ChinaSelect calls 🇨🇳CCP interference with rights & tech conference in #Zambia

The #RightsCon cancellation scandal is expanding... and official condemnations keep coming.

We wouldn't know any of this without @accessnow's decision to shine a light on it 1/

[Coupe Circuit 📴 @coupecircuit_]

🇷🇺 Les applis russes savent qui utilise un VPN

Sur 30 applis Android populaires en Russie analysées par @RKS_global (Max, VK...), toutes sont capables de détecter quand leurs utilisateurs sont connectés à un VPN.

Courts-circuits | 28 avril-4 mai 2026

https://t.co/XIcnxtRpKl

[Samuel Chu 朱牧民 @samuelmchu]

Here is the video of Hon. Felix Chipota Mutati, Zambia's Minister of Technology and Science @MoTS_Zambia, celebrating at the signing of the MOU to host @rightscon. The same minister abruptly canceled the conference less than a week before it was supposed to take place. #RightsCon

[Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @ZeyiYang]

The Chinese government pressured Zambia to screen and exclude Taiwanese speakers from attending @rightscon, leading to the largest international convention on digital rights being canceled a week before it takes place, the host org @accessnow tells WIRED.