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👀🚨🇪🇸 Spain's population database allegedly leaked, 46.3 million residents potentially exposed An actor using the handle "spain" is advertising an 80 GB database allegedly containing personal information on 46.3 million residents of Spain. The dataset reportedly includes full names, national identification numbers, dates of birth, residential addresses, nationalities, and census registration information. Sample records have been published, with the complete database offered for sale. The source and authenticity of the data remain unclear. Claim is currently unverified.

Threat actors are weaponizing ARTEX, an open-source, large language model (LLM)-driven agentic platform to automate multiple phases of cyber intrusions at machine speed. Since at least August 2026, a variety of malicious cyber actors have used ARTEX to conduct campaigns targeting organizations globally across multiple sectors, including financial services, government, and technology. ARTEX significantly reduces the time required to chain attack techniques and enables threat actors with minimal technical expertise to conduct complex, multi-target operations simultaneously. Today, the FBI released a FLASH highlighting the tactics, techniques, and procedures and indicators of compromise associated with the ARTEX framework. Organizations should follow the mitigation steps outlined in the FLASH to improve their security posture in response to ARTEX and similar agentic SI frameworks: https://www.ic3.gov/CSA/2026/261113.pdf

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When Your Inner Thoughts Are No Longer Just Yours https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/opini…

Today with the community, @cass_on_mars forked snapchain (Farcaster). The fork is now Hypersnap where there are many clients (apps) to choose from Unlike the new Farcaster Balajiworld BS cult, you can’t be censored or deplatformed. You don’t even need to sign a purity pledge. No VC’s either Really hoping to see everyone trying decentralized social again! To come check it out, open farcaster, go to settings/recovery options/show farcaster recovery options. You can import that phrase into a new wallet or directly into the client. Wallet is suggested for help visit the telegram https://t.me/+4eYOApUSw500Yzgx Favorite apps in thread 👇🏻

My advice to everyone, if you have a networked smart device, rip the connectivity out of it, *now*. Unplug the ethernet, get it off the WiFI, trash it if you can’t. There’s a storm coming, and it’s going to be scary. It’s the time of reckoning for decades of IoT negligence.