#AxisOfEasy 466: You Handed Over Your Licence At The Counter. Now 153 Million Scans Are For sale

In this issue:

A dark-web service is selling scans of 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licences, and the trail points at the vendor that scans IDs at rental counters and dispensaries.

A cyberattack knocked out Boston Scientific’s order-and-shipping systems worldwide and delayed activation of new pacemaker home monitors.

A perfect-storm JFrog Artifactory bug lets anyone mint an admin token, and attackers were forging them within three days of the patch.

Researchers spent $535.74 and eight and a half hours getting Claude to port a working exploit to an industrial controller — then it bricked the device.

Two more surveillance backdoors turned up in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide under brand names the real manufacturer never prints on the box.

In this issue:

A dark-web service is selling scans of 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licences, and the trail points at the vendor that scans IDs at rental counters and dispensaries.

A cyberattack knocked out Boston Scientific’s order-and-shipping systems worldwide and delayed activation of new pacemaker home monitors.

A perfect-storm JFrog Artifactory bug lets anyone mint an admin token, and attackers were forging them within three days of the patch.

Researchers spent $535.74 and eight and a half hours getting Claude to port a working exploit to an industrial controller — then it bricked the device.

Two more surveillance backdoors turned up in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide under brand names the real manufacturer never prints on the box.