Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming

This Wired-style roundup highlights multiple security and privacy stories: Meta has dormant on-device face-recognition code; plaintiffs are suing xAI over Grok-generated deepfake nudes; Google added an Android cryptographic handshake to limit impersonation calls; researchers disclosed FROST, a JavaScript SSD side-channel fingerprinting attack; Chainalysis mapped crypto flows funding illicit peptide vendors; AI automation enabled account takeovers at Meta; and Anthropic is reportedly giving NSA access to its powerful Mythos tool — collectively illustrating rising risks from AI, novel research findings, and ongoing cyber-enabled fraud.