Sam Sabin

@samsabin.bsky.social

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Axios cybersecurity reporter, taking it day by day ✨ | 📩: sam.sabin@axios dot com, signal: SamSabin.01 (no pitches!), she/her

Slide at a presentation that reads “Humans Only Concert”
Photo of two white spheres with openings where people scan their irises to verify their IDs
A comment on Github from Axios maintainer Jason Saayman that, in part, reads: "they tailored this process specifically to me by doing the following: they reached out masquerading as the founder of a company they had cloned the companys founders likeness as well as the company itself. they then invited me to a real slack workspace. this workspace was branded to the companies ci and named in a plausible manner. the slack was thought out very well, they had channels where they were sharing linked-in posts, the linked in posts i presume just went to the real companys account but it was super convincing etc. they even had what i presume were fake profiles of the team of the company but also number of other oss maintainers."
Image of a black cat looking straight at the camera, curled up in a bed on a desk
a view of a lush green forest and a lake below it
A blacked out ID from South Carolina.
Screenshot from a slide at Anthropic’s DEF CON presentation showing the manifesto that Claude wrote that calls for “total traffic annihilation”
screenshot of a keynote talk at Black Hat from CISA's acting director about how "reports of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency's death are greatly exaggerated."
screenshot of a blog post from Eye Security that reads "Stories from the SOC: Eye see you, Axios"
a statement from the Chinese embassy saying, "Cyber attacks are a common threat faced by all countries, China included. China firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyber attacks and cyber crime — a position that is consistent and clear. At the same time, we also firmly oppose smearing others without solid evidence. Cyberspace is characterized by strong virtuality, difficulty in tracing origins, and diverse actors, making the tracing of cyber attacks a complex technical issue. We hope that relevant parties will adopt a professional and responsible attitude when characterizing cyber incidents, basing their conclusions on sufficient evidence rather than unfounded speculation and accusations."
screenshot of a message on iOS that reads “remove ‘Love Island USA’?”
screenshot of an X post from Andy Cohen that says "LET ME HOST THE REUNION! 🇺🇸"
Screenshot from the above linked story that reads, "Between the lines: While the Level 3 ranking is largely about the model's capability to enable renegade production of nuclear and biological weapons, the Opus also exhibited other troubling behaviors during testing. In one scenario highlighted in Opus 4's 120-page "system card," the model was given access to fictional emails about its creators and told that the system was going to be replaced. On multiple occasions it attempted to blackmail the engineer about an affair mentioned in the emails in order to avoid being replaced, although it did start with less drastic efforts."
Screenshot of a post from George Kurtz that reads: "A story this week said I recently sold virtually all of my stock in CrowdStrike. False. Let’s set the record straight. I am one of the largest individual shareholders of CrowdStrike. We moved some stock into trusts for my family as well as to support causes we care about, like teenage mental health. As for my voting rights, since our IPO I’ve always had less than a majority and super-voting rights ended December 2024. And for those suggesting I’m riding off into the sunset…not a chance. As much as our competitors might wish I’d leave, or that I’m less in it, that’s BS. I’m all in. I’m not going anywhere. I love CrowdStrike, I love what we’re building, and I’ve never been more confident in our future - or more committed to our mission of stopping breaches."
story text that reads: “Asked how Goldberg's number was added to the chat, Waltz said: "Have you ever had somebody's contact that shows their name ... and then you have somebody else's number there?" He added: "So, of course, I didn't see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean is something we're trying to figure out."”
screenshot of a headline from an Atlantic story that reads, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans"
garmin watch face with a 5k pace of ~35mins
Screenshot of an X post from CISA that reads: “CISA’s mission is to defend against all cyber threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure, including from Russia. There has been no change in our posture. Any reporting to the contrary is fake and undermines our national security.”
image of a redwood forest
(screenshot of an email subject line saying “you got tickets to Beyoncé”)
Pic of a ceramic bowl with blue and green tones inside
Screenshot of an X post where Sen. Schmitt published a letter to then-DHS Undersecretary Rob Silvers asking to speed up the probe in the Salt Typhoon intrusions.
Lola the black cat curled up on a blanket
barry the orange cat curled up in a ball to take a nap on top of a pillow
Barry the orange cat curled up on the couch