Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/googles-top-hacker-hunter-explains-why-hacking-groups-get-codenames/
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@yecsdose
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
147subscribers
+3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001789468567 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @yecsdose |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 3 times, most recently 8 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/yecsdose |
Hacking & security — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 25 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Sept 2026, 03:39 | 147 | +2 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 16:55 | 145 | +1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 21:16 | 144 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 18:25 | 144 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 8 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 8 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/googles-top-hacker-hunter-explains-why-hacking-groups-get-codenames/
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Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breach-trueconf-to-trojanize-client-installers-with-backdoors/
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CVE-2026-32597 PyJWT accepts unknown `crit` header extensions (RFC 7515 §4.1.11 MUST violation) https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-32597
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CVE-2026-48524 PyJWT: PyJWKClient unbounded JWKS endpoint requests via attacker-controlled kid values (DoS) https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-48524
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ZDI-CAN-33061: LangGenius http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/
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ZDI-CAN-33065: LangGenius http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/
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ZDI-CAN-33299: deepset http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/
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ZDI-CAN-32569: deepset http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/
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ZDI-CAN-32599: Adobe http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/
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ZDI-CAN-31619: NoMachine http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/
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ZDI-CAN-30982: NoMachine http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/
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ZDI-CAN-31213: NoMachine http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @yecsdose. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 13 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Your Everyday Cybersecurity Dose” (@yecsdose), 147 subscribers as measured 13 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/yecsdose.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.