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NSP AOD Harm Reduction Community Engagement Worker. leave things better than you found them.

[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.

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

Let’s go Texas! 👏

[𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚 @macpunc]

@cookerwatch Always, just always, they are rotten scum.

[𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚 @macpunc]

@I_amMukhtar Every accusation is a confession, it's been proven many times with RWNJs.

[LPC @landpalestine]

The Israeli IDF soldier who gave the order to shoot Hind Rajab a 5 year old Palestinian girl 355 times is currently in the USA and ofc nothings gonna happen to him

His name is Sean Giass make him famous

[𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚 @macpunc]

@factpostnews Actually: The Titanic took approximately 3 to 5 minutes to turn 180 degrees (a half-turn), cruising at roughly 21 to 22.5 knots. A full 360-degree turn took about 5.6 minutes (or roughly 340 seconds), averaging just under 1 degree per second.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

If only more dads had this gentleman's wisdom.

[𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚 @macpunc]

@CalltoActivism Cringe.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Paul Roberts @PaulRob11880584]

Remember this, the right wing media should hang their heads in shame.

They are as guilty as @PaulineHansonOz in inciting hatred in Australia.

When calling out Hanson, call out the media for fuelling the fire of hatred.

[𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚 @macpunc]

@MAGACult2 These men are cooked AF.

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

See these two men? They are Marcus Harvey and Tre Jones from Marion, Indiana. They should be all over the news but they’re not. A few days ago they saw a house fully engulfed in flames with people still inside so they kicked in the front door and risked their own lives to save the occupants inside. None of the occupants would still be alive if it wasn’t for them. Neither one gave a second thought about anybody’s color, they just did what was right. These are the heroes that the media won’t show you.

[𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚 @macpunc]

Absolutely agree!

[Rick @colonelhogans]

WONT see this in News Corp rags, Sky, Seven and Nine morning shows!

Helen Haines’ friend Serena has spoken out, saying she hopes this attack is a turning point, & that we can all be more like Helen, by rejecting the “hatred” derived from “Trumpian” politics & being kind to people of all backgrounds.💥👏 #auspol

[𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚 @macpunc]

@VictorianLabor This is where you need to be at.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

This is one of the finest, most powerful television ads I've every seen. Do American a favor and share this everywhere.

Heart, not policy papers.
Love, not hate.
Hope, not fear.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

[𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚 @macpunc]

@SecRollins @POTUS @USDA Oh look, trump is try8mg to buy farmer now.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Texans voting for James Talarico reminds me of New Yorkers voting for Zohran Mamdani. It feels good to vote for someone with integrity, whose heart is in the right place.

After many years, Texans are finally fighting to take back their state from the corrupt, greed-driven Republicans who sold out the people to line their own pockets and please their billionaire bosses.

[AVK | Wide World of Batshit @VaxxersAnti]

The salty, salty tears have started to flow.