Hallucinating Credibility: China-Aligned TA419 Impersonates its Way into US AI Policy Circles | Proofpoint US
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Key Findings In July 2026, a China-aligned threat actor Proofpoint tracks as TA419 conducted multiple credential phishing campaigns impersonating prominent economists and artificial
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    23 days ago

    We could make X.509 and PGP-based authentication the norm for serious emails.

    I remember when cleartext telnet and http was the norm, and today, it’s ssh and https. The same improvements haven’t generally happened with email, but they could.

    • sage@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      23 days ago

      Because encryption is being used in emails? You don’t use cleartext SMTP anymore.

      That does not change that you don’t identify people on the internet, regardless of the protocol.