Daily Reading for 2026-04-28
Daily Reading for 2026-04-28
Security
Security Risk Advisors
- 🚩 Tropic Trooper Used A Trojanized SumatraPDF Reader, AdaptixC2, And VS Code Tunnels To Target Chinese-Speaking Individuals In Asia
- 🚩 Bissa Scanner Used AI-Assisted Workflows and React2Shell To Harvest Secrets at Scale From Public-Facing Web Applications
- 🚩 UNC6692 Used Helpdesk Impersonation, Microsoft Teams Social Engineering, And A Custom “SNOW” Malware Suite To Achieve Deep Network Penetration
Microsoft Security Blog
Programming
Simon Willison’s Weblog
- Quoting Matthew Yglesias
- What’s new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!
- Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
- microsoft/VibeVoice
- Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause
- Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices