Cybersecurity reporter for @politico, Austin, TX native, history nerd, TexMex snob. Follow Instagram @maggiemiller_reports. Tips? Send to [email protected]

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Joined June 2012
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new from me: OpenAI has begun cutting off internet access for its most capable artificial intelligence models during the training process in response to prior incidents in which its systems breached other companies, including @huggingface. cc @Techmeme bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Quest Diagnostics has been hacked. Patient data was exposed. They serve roughly half of U.S. hospitals and physicians. Investigation ongoing.
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New: I got a tip a little while ago about a shadowy Pentagon entity called "TSO" with a lot of money and a desire for offensive hacking tools. Turns out TSO is a new DoD agency. And it does a lot more than hacking. w/@JackDetsch and @paulmcleary politico.com/news/2026/10/22…
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SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions. axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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Taylor Swift's silence on the PHP CVE is deafening
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Russia is using online influence campaigns to target Democrats running for office, and any candidates largely supportive of Ukraine, @jahimes and @MarkWarner told reporters today. Here we go again. More here: politico.com/news/2026/10/21…
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House websites getting a security patch too
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A major security moment, and one that's already led to governments including the Netherlands and Finland taking their websites offline to address the flaws. Never seen that in my nine years on the cyber beat.
Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
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SCOOP: Cyberattack disrupts Transportation Department safety agency contact center: w/ @magmill95 politico.com/news/2026/10/14…
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DOJ says this was a Saudi National
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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Update: Ransomware negotiator Edward Dubrovsky — who authored a book published last month titled “Cyber Extortion Strategic Response”— was charged with conspiracy to commit extortion on behalf of the ShinyHunters group.
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NEW: Employees at OpenAI had raised security alarms months before the Hugging Face incident and related A.I. cyberattacks — their warnings were ignored. From @sheeraf, @dnvolz and me. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/techn…
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This morning @FBI and our partners the Dutch National Police are announcing the arrest of one of the alleged leaders of ShinyHunters - a global cybercrime and threat actor group linked to cyberattacks in the United States, the Netherlands, and around the world. In coordination with FBI investigators the Dutch High-Tech Crime Unit arrested the suspect under Dutch law. As we speak FBI teams are actively working with partners to obtain and execute more leads in the ongoing investigation based on this arrest. Thank you to our Dutch National Police partners for their continued work with us in this case and the industry partners who shared information with us. The investigation continues. -DKP🇺🇸
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Social Security numbers, birth dates compromised in ‘major’ hack of FBI jobs portal dlvr.it/TVhKmG
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New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday.
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NEW with @magmill95: When it comes to homeland security, Republicans, Democrats, lobbyists and even the Trump administration agree on one thing: Kentucky Republican Rand Paul is impossible to get around. politico.com/news/2026/09/28…
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New: Security researchers are questioning whether an OpenAI agent needed to hack an Australian government health portal to access it, after a review of the website’s archived code found it explicitly directed visitors to an unauthenticated endpoint. therecord.media/openai-austr…
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