Trump's former WH attorney Ty Cobb: Trump wants to rewrite history so the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection, refused to peacefully transfer power…one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was reelecting Trump

After multiple reports of law enforcement raids on cryptocurrency businesses in Moscow City over the past two weeks, the Rapira exchange tells RBC that raids are in fact taking place, although it is unclear that they are connected to large transfers of funds to Dubai as some reports suggest.

In Kostroma, a 34yo man is facing up to 5 years in prison for selling access to 1,500 user accounts at an unnamed Internet service on a hacker forum for 500,000 rubles. Guess that this would be accounts on a Russian Internet service.

A Moscow IT company has leaked sensitive documents about A7, a newly established Russian payments company: reporter.london?p=1484 The files reveal how the Kremlin used the A7A5 crypto token to help the Kremlin bypass sanctions, pay bribes, and interfere in elections: www.elliptic.co/blog/the-a7-...

😡 Russia has significantly intensified its campaign of sabotage, subversion, and other hybrid attacks against European countries. We decided to analyse how Russia is launching attacks on free Europe to crack its spirit and to prepare for the future war. Read more below ⬇️

More recruitment on Telegram of foot soldiers in the West for malicious activity on behalf of Russia. The recruitment works.

A nice bookend for yesterday’s reporting from Sistema on Russia’s use of Telegram to recruit saboteurs in the West.

At the Russian Internet Forum 2025, presidential aide Sergey Kirienko declares that Russia now has complete digital sovereignty, which only China and the USA also have. No one can dictate how Russia runs its networks, no one can cut it off, it can supply every service on its own.

Autonomous killing robots—what could go wrong?

Fascinating investigative reporting on a Telegram bot run by the GRU and a Russian neo-Nazi used to recruit Westerners for acts of sabotage. From Sistema, an investigative project of Radio Liberty. www.currenttime.tv/a/systema-ok...

🚨🚨🚨 Google released a report on "Brickstorm" this morning — a next-level, suspected China-linked campaign targeting U.S. firms. Ultra-stealthy, 400+ day dwell times, focus on stealing IP, finding zero-days, and focused on long-term cyberespionage. cyberscoop.com/chinese-cybe...

So many questions, e.g.: Did he reverse the reported halt last week of US sales to NATO (Denmark iirc)? Does he have a plan for informing Russians in all those Great Cities, Towns, and Districts that Putin is doing something not in their interest? Is he suggesting Ukr take & keep Russian territory?

The European airports ransomware incident is a little heard of ransomware variant, Hardbit, which has no portal/blog and normally hits tiny companies. Today, day four, they had to restart recovery again as the machines got reinfected.. again.

Between 2020 and 2024, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms: · Lockheed Martin ($313 billion) · RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion) · Boeing ($115 billion) · General Dynamics ($116 billion) and · Northrop Grumman ($81 billion)

Also, mixing up countries aside, the description of the Azerbaijan-Armenia war is not factual. The war was frozen for decades and ended in 2023 without any US participation! It ended w Aze retaking territory, not w talks. Trump talks about the leaders as if they’re wild animals he tamed. Unhinged!

A depressing warning: a new book demonstrates how Russia’s path from democracy to Putinism was prepared by hundreds of small state interventions and cultural adjustments restricting individual freedoms and conditioning the populace to accept it. theins.press/knigi/284732

The head of Britain's MI6 offers this updated assessment of Russia's casuallties (KIA/MIA) in the Ukraine war.

Criminal hackers using #AI to find victim organizations and break in is the old new thing. Hackers breaking in and then turning the victim’s AI against them is the new new thing, and it is going to get so much worse. Gift link to my story today. wapo.st/4nDfV5o

56% of Germans believe that Russia will attack eastern NATO countries. In Dec 24 a (small) majority still believed they wouldn’t. ZDF Polit-Barometer

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

🚨🇺🇸 Alleged Sale of Sensitive Data from Department of Defense DARPA Project Price: $100,000

The “Digital Curtain” is coming down, and Russia is becoming increasingly isolated from the global Internet. The internal repression grows, but so far there hasn’t been a lot of protest. re-russia.net/analytics/03...

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Exchange Sergey Shvetsov said that Russia will have to live with a military budget for another 5-8 years. According to him, even after the war ends, Russia will replenish its stockpiles and rearm. No plans for peace.

“Freedom is often lost under mountains of paperwork and crippling fines rather than in a cinematic showdown with a dictator.” - @garrykasparov.bsky.social www.thenextmove.org/p/i-saw-how-...

It's not about Jimmy Kimmel. It wasn't about Colbert. It wasn't about the CBS interview with Kamala Harris or George Stephanopoulos, either. Trump is finally coming out with it. Don't make him look bad. Or even joke about it. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Twenty years after the comedy went silent, Russia is a sadistic, warmongering fascist regime run by a mad centibillionaire. That’s a future that could be ours — whole argument of "Road to Unfreedom" — but also one we can stop — see "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom." www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...

America is having its Kukly moment.

Ransomware stats for summer 2025 www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/4690...

In a meeting with fraction leaders, Putin calls for de-politicizing Stalin’s contribution to victory in the Great Patriotic War. Yeah, that’s the problem with Stalin—people are always politicizing what he did.

Scattered Spider crackdown continues: U.K. arrests 2 suspected members for hacking London's transit agency, DOJ charges one of them w/ $115m hacking spree that included a critical infrastructure org & the US court system. www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/two-cha... www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...

Zumindest derzeit scheint es unwahrscheinlich, dass russische Cyberoperationen zu einem entscheidenden Faktor werden. @nzz.ch @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social @dgoberlin.bsky.social @russlandwatcher.de @konflikt-sicher.bsky.social @russland-analyse.bsky.social @russlandverstehen.eu

💥🕵️ NEW INVESTIGATION: We reveal the ringleader of the GRU’s parcel-bomb plot—a Russian radioactive-materials smuggler—trace the explosives’ route across NATO borders, and show how the GRU recruited Russians and Ukrainians in the West. @vsquare.bsky.social @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

Trufflehog: Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials GitHub: github.com/trufflesecur... ShinyHunters stated they used this tool in the Salesforce/Salesloft hack. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Trump, “you can post on Truth Social all you want, and you can give as many interviews with Fox News as you please, but your name will forever be spoken in the same breath as Neville Chamberlain — and well it should.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

BreachForums admin Conor Fitzpatrick, Pompompurin, was resentenced today The new sentence is three years after initially being released on time served www.justice.gov/opa/pr/found...

More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980

The surveillance state continues to grow. Russian authorities want to centralize all video surveillance cameras in the country, increase their number to 5 million (currently 1.2 million), and use AI to monitor the feeds. 12 billion rubles is the projected cost. www.kommersant.ru/doc/6352767

Check out this DomainTools post about a research project on Russian-affiliated ransomware, which coincides with Jon DiMaggio and Daniel Schwalbe's talk from SLEUTHCON this year. dti.domaintools.com/mapping-hidd... #SLEUTHCON #ransomware

Romania's communication's watchdog says Twitter has refused to cooperate and take down Russian propaganda all year stirileprotv.ro/stiri/actual...

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Could Trump possibly screw up the Russia-Ukraine war any worse? (gift article) wapo.st/4na32jM

“Given its effectiveness, we expect that within 6–9 months, most drones at the front will be equipped with similar autonomy systems.” united24media.com/latest-news/...

Trump: “Smart people don’t like me”

Russian media indicating that the Internet voting systems being used across the country now are being hit with fewer and less intensive attacks than in past years. The attacks are still inevitably blamed on devious foreigners though. smotrim.ru/article/4685...

We risk becoming a second rate power. Important piece. (gift article). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

NEW: The inscriptions on bullets recovered near the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder appear to reference video games like Helldivers 2 and online furry roleplay, not a legible political ideology.

for anyone who’s not paying super close attention to all this (and good for you, seriously), this is a 12yo post from the mom of charlie kirk’s accused killer. it’s also a warning, albeit an unintentional one.

We are getting more and more like Russia every week.

Digital freedoms advocates worldwide are alarmed by a Swiss government plan requiring service providers to get user ID at sign up, retain data for 6 months. The law, still under debate, also would require decryption. Proton moving infrastructure out of the country therecord.media/switzerland-...