New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

US officials took the North Korea IT worker issue to the UN this week, claiming 40 countries have been impacted by a variety of cyber activity. Pakistan and Argentina made arrests and other moves based on info provided by US, Japan, S. Korea and others in October therecord.media/40-countries...

Intense competition, rapid innovation, and strong state involvement define the overall trends in China’s cybersecurity industry for 2025. See our latest analysis nattothoughts.substack.com/p/chinas-202...

The U.S. companies whose cybersecurity software has been banned include Broadcom-owned VMware, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet (FTNT.O), while the Israeli companies include Check Point Software Technologies the sources said.

New: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software www.reuters.com/world/china/...

www.axios.com/2026/01/12/a... Really interesting piece on how AI is creating even more unequal distribution of wealth.

!!!!!!!!

Today, we released new @RecordedFuture research detailing BlueDelta’s expanded credential-harvesting activity observed between February and September 2025. #BlueDelta #APT28 #FANCYBEAR #ForestBlizzard #FROZENLAKE #ITG05 #PawnStorm #Sednit #Sofacy #TA422 (1/5) www.recordedfuture.com/research/gru...

This could set a precedent for more prosecutions of stalkerware makers. Unfortunately the problem is that many of these companies are run from outside of the United States. Also the key, I think, is to show that they are specifically marketing their products to spy on adults without their consent.

Intelligence Online has revealed the identities of two previously unknown spyware makers. The market is probably bigger than we realize.

Everything’s Decaying So I Might As Well Just Make a Fuckload of Pasta and Watch “Tinker, Tailor” (2026)

I really do love|hate RegExes. This week, a short walkthrough on how to use them to find DPRK hackers. buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

Director of the CIA is in the room but you have OSINTdefender's twitter page up on the screen

It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time. Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.

@accessnow.org ’s Helpline is a “frontline resource” for journalists and others who may have been targeted or hacked with #spyware. ✍️ @lorenzofb.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/m...

NEW: Meet the folks at AccessNow's Digital Security Helpline, who have been investigating government spyware for more than a decade, helping journalists and dissidents all over the world. I spoke to Hassen Selmi, who heads the incident response team, to learn how his team fights spyware abuses.

"North Korea Drives Record $2 Billion Crypto Theft Year, Pushing All-Time Total to $6.75 Billion" published by Chainalysis. #DeFi, #ITWorker, #MoneyLaundering, #DPRK, #CTI https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-hacking-stolen-funds-2026/

A Russian national was also indicted for running the platform. via @gregotto.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/michigan-e-n...

Big story here and among the many scoops in it is the allegation that China is quietly handing out passports and tolerating dual nationality for specialists recruited to replicate ASML’s EUV machines at a secret factory in Shenzhen. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Today, we released new @RecordedFuture research detailing BlueDelta’s sustained credential-harvesting campaign targeting UKR.NET users between June 2024 and April 2025. www.recordedfuture.com/research/blu... #BlueDelta #APT28 #FANCYBEAR #ForestBlizzard #FROZENLAKE #PawnStorm #Sednit #Sofacy (1/5)

me when pivoting, also me when pivoting

The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.

Very useful interactive piece that clarifies who among the tech/billionaire axis are trying to destroy democracy.

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

The UK sanctions notice states there are “reasonable grounds to suspect” Abu Lulu is responsible for violence based on ethnicity and religion, and for the deliberate targeting of civilians. www.gov.uk/government/n...

It's also worrying that in this operation they considered to target with information operations/propaganda the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva @icrc.org, by definition neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation and the custodian of laws of armed conflict.

To say that the new Switzerland's security policy strategy is remarkable is to say nothing. Probably as much of a pivot towards heightened readiness to Russia threat and military cooperation with Europe as possible while upholding neutrality related positions.

“The HCDA helped victims of police violence to successfully take legal action against the Met as a way of holding them to account. The organisation also helped to uncover key evidence of a major alleged corruption scandal involving the police.”

Incredible story. I appreciate very much how the reporters build off earlier journalism, declassified documents, and obscure memoirs alongside their excellent reporting and stellar archival finds to paint such a detailed picture. Masterful. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The horrors persist but so do I, but also could the horrors like. slow down perhaps

call me old-fashioned but i still thinking further devolving the state’s monopoly on violence (or its digital equivalent) to corporations is a bad idea

What could ever go wrong with this :)))

oh this is shitty lol

So rarely hear the phrase “legitimate concerns” being used with climate change protestors, hunger striking peace activists, trans people who want to live without fear, and on and on

I always love seeing what journalism students pull off with the right training and support. This team tracked Russian vessels in Europe and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

"Germany has accused Russia of a cyber-attack on air traffic control and attempted electoral interference, and summoned the Russian ambassador. " www.bbc.com/news/article...

Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’ The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

“All three women encountered by the Colorado hospital staff were reluctant to take their monitors off, fearing that doing so would trigger an alert to ICE or BI Inc, the staff said, even if removing the device was deemed medically necessary.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Textbook transnational repression targeting @carmenlau.bsky.social and once again, belittling *women* who bravely stand up to autocracy.

Absolutely chilling read (as a disinformation researcher): The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech. By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com www.theverge.com/features/839...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

New from the @wizsecurity.bsky.social team on what we're seeing post CVE-2025-55182 exploitation. www.wiz.io/blog/nextjs-...

Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Like others we are seeing attacks attempting to exploit React CVE-2025-55182 at scale, incl. botnet related activity. How successful have these attacks been? You can get a view here, where we track compromised host with Next.js attacking our sensors: dashboard.shadowserver.org/statistics/h...

Israeli surveillance targets US and allies at joint base planning Gaza aid and security, say sources www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

React2Shell exploitation frequency in GreyNoise dec 5-dec 6

I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced

lol... you don't say...