A casino installed a smart fish tank in the lobby.
Beautiful thing. Automated feeding. Temperature control. Remote monitoring.
Connected to the internet. Obviously.
Hackers found it.
Exploited it.
Downloaded the high-roller database.
10 gigabytes.
Sent it to Finland.
Using audio and video protocols so it looked like normal streaming traffic.
The fish tank sat in the lobby maintaining water chemistry while stealing credit card numbers.
The casino isolated the fish tank on its own VPN.
Separate network. Segregated. Off limits to everything.
Hackers didn't care. Broke through the isolation anyway.
Once inside the fish tank's system. They pivoted to the main network.
Quietly pulled data. Methodically.
10 gigabytes over time so nobody noticed.
Nobody monitors fish tank outbound traffic.
Why would they.
It's a fish tank.
When Darktrace finally investigated they saw it immediately.
The fish tank sending massive amounts of data to an external IP.
Using protocols designed for audio. Not data.
Clear exfiltration.
The only device in the entire casino that ever communicated with that Finland server.
A fish tank.
Not a computer. Not compromised credentials. Not a malware-laden email.
A networked aquarium.
The lesson everyone learned: IoT devices are security theater.
You can secure them. Lock them down. Isolate them.
They're still connected to something. Still vulnerable to something.
And something will find them.
Even if that something is just checking if a fish tank is running the default password.
I respect the Catholic Church for having zero interest in women priests. No question about it, no movement for it among the cardinals. Popes laugh if they’re asked about it. A whole org just profoundly unmoved by this pervasive modern sensibility. Eternal institution energy.
BREAKING: Ukraine has just struck the St. Petersburg oil port and set it ablaze, with massive fires rising, one of Russia's largest fuel storage and export facilities.
Zelensky said two days ago that Ukraine will restart major strikes on Russian energy. "The block on attacking refineries is out. We're done."
Imagine being Ash Dykes going to kayak the Congo river and all every one is talking about is how many ways it could kill you. This is how motivational speech in adventure works. But a life lived in fear is a life half lived 👊🏾
I want to offer an apology to the people of Nairobi, Kenya. The passion you have your city and homeland is amazing… We all make mistakes. I misspoke, and I am sorry to anyone I have offended.🙌
🇺🇸🇨🇩 The Tim Kennedy Congo ambush is stranger than the headlines... a Blackwater founder's contract, a war over the metals in your phone, and a Green Beret who was still in the National Guard
A former UFC star, a New Zealand SAS veteran and a third operator, caught in a firefight in Congo on Sept. 17...
Tim Kennedy reportedly took multiple rounds, including three to the leg, and was flown home in stable condition after an evacuation that reportedly took nearly 8 HOURS.
Justin Conaglen, who had left New Zealand's military just a month earlier, was killed, and New Zealand has opened an investigation.
So why were they there?
Congo sits on some of the world's richest deposits of cobalt, copper and gold, the metals inside every phone and electric car battery, and its east has been at war for decades.
The biggest player is M23, a rebel group the UN says is backed by neighboring Rwanda, which seized two major eastern cities last year.
Reports tie the team to Vectus Global, a firm linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince, which Congo's government reportedly hired to help protect its mining revenue.
Reports within the special operations community even points to Russia's Africa Corps, the outfit that took over Wagner's operations, though nobody has shown proof.
Then there's Kennedy himself. As of last year he was still a part-time master sergeant in Maryland's National Guard, so if that hasn't changed, a serving US soldier was wounded working a private security job for a foreign government.
So who signed off on that, and who answers for it now?
Source: The New Zealand Herald, Reuters, MMA Weekly, MilitaryCom / Writer: Daniel
Blackwater founder Erik Prince's mercenary forces suffered a major battlefield loss in eastern DRC when rebel forces ambushed them, killing and wounding at least 20 people, including a popular former UFC fighter. 1/2
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The biggest news from China’s car industry today. 3 brake pedals during emergency brake tests on 3 brand-new, luxury class Maextro V800s. (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
Maextro is Huawei’s luxury brand with JAC, and the V800 sells for 0.77 to 1 million RMB.
Massive credit to Dongchedi, the company that tested the cars. They are, I believe, China’s most renowned and respected third-party testing platform, and this video shows why.
3 new cars, pedal force sensors on the third attempt, cameras everywhere, a closed track, a drone and a safety crew. This is among the highest levels of independent car testing I have seen anywhere.
The force when the third pedal broke was 1612 N. I am not sure on this one, but from the limited posts I read, it seems China’s industry standard requires a brake pedal to hold 2000 N for 5 seconds.
This had a huge impact on the company. Today JAC’s stock fell by 10%.
P.S: I just translated the video and added english subtitles. Video Credits: Dongchedi, Sources in the thread 👇