There's some really big caveats to this. A thread.

Les données publicitaires sont censées nous faire acheter des baskets ou des yaourts. Mais elles sont si fines qu'elles permettent bien davantage : pister plusieurs hauts responsables des institutions européennes en étudiant leurs déplacements entre le lieu de travail et leur domicile, par exemple.

The smartest and most illuminating piece on scams I've read in quite some time: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"According to three sources who have direct knowledge of these cases, there have been other spyware & exploit developers in the last few months who have received notifications from Apple alerting them that they were targeted with #spyware." ✍️ @lorenzofb.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/a...

It's been quite a number of years since we've seen how the Pegasus client panel looks. Document from the WhatsApp lawsuit. (p15 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

The start of this article is absolutely wild www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

"Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS" YOU DONT SAY health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include an iris-scanning app that agents plan to use in the field, spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant."

"Remote biometric surveillance is not only in place to provide security (it doesn’t) or prevent gatherings (it can’t). It is the only means of control left when trust in the population has withered."

The British government has refuted claims by a former senior adviser that China compromised “vast amounts” of sensitive information in 2020 from the U.K.’s most sensitive systems for transmitting classified material.

Scoop: meet Group 78, a secret FBI task force aimed at making the lives of Russian cyber thugs impossible, using possibly illegal methods and risking the derailment of European investigations along the way. (With @flrnd.bsky.social @kaibiermann.bsky.social) Thread ⤵️

Im Februar 2025 veröffentlichten Unbekannte eine große Sammlung interner Nachrichten der Cybererpressergruppe #BlackBasta. Aber woher stammte das Leak? Zusammen mit @untersin.gr + @flrnd.bsky.social von @lemonde.fr sind wir dem nachgegangen und haben eine Vermutung 1/3 www.zeit.de/digital/2025...

Surtout, nos informations soulèvent un certain nombre de questions sur les fuites ayant visé BlackBasta ces derniers mois, dont la publication, sur Telegram, de nombreuses conversations internes. Notre enquête avec @untersin.gr www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

La présentation, centrée ici sur le groupe BlackBasta, choque certains enquêteurs et magistrats européens, craignant un mélange des genres, voire qu'on leur demande de blanchir des opérations potentiellement illégales des services de renseignement américains.

L'an dernier, un agent du FBI et représentant du "Group 78" est venu présenter aux enquêteurs européens la stratégie de cette unité secrète américaine. Leur objectif : pousser, par divers moyens, les opérateurs de rançongiciels hors du territoire Russe.

Scoop : révélations sur le "Group 78", l'unité secrète du FBI chargée de faire la guerre aux cybercriminels, quitte à utiliser des méthodes illégales et au risque de faire dérailler les enquêtes judiciaires européennes (avec @flrnd.bsky.social et @kaibiermann.bsky.social). Thread ⤵️

An extremely important story about the ways that facial recognition tech is failing people with facial differences, by @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/when-f...

Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social. He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth. The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.

La société de surveillance First Wap, basée en Indonésie, est restée pendant vingt ans sous les radars. Elle a pourtant vendu à des Etats autoritaires une solution de pistage qui a permis de géolocaliser journalistes, personnalités et cadres dirigeants. Enquête, avec @lighthousereports.com

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group. NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

L'attaque contre Antoni Lallican et George Ivanchenko s'est produite vers Komychouvakha, à plus de 17 kilomètres des premières positions russes connues. Les deux photographes se trouvaient à l'extérieur, leurs patchs "presse" bien visibles, lorsqu'ils ont été touchés par le drone FPV russe.

Yes you were - though not necessarily just naive. It’s not as though there were not plenty of warnings about the risks

Dutch court rules Meta violated European law by pushing users to profiled feeds via @suzannesmalley.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

Nearly every industry has been duped into hiring North Koreans in violation of sanctions, as technology companies represent only half of all targeted victims, threat researchers at Okta said in a report this week. cyberscoop.com/north-korea-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/

NEW: The U.K. government is reportedly once again requesting Apple build a backdoor so government officials can access end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups in the U.K. Last time this happened, Apple disabled iCloud's Advanced Data Protection, the opt-in feature that lets users encypt cloud backups.

In Poland, a Russian GRU agent was detained on charges of preparing terrorist attacks in Poland, Lithuania and Germany using drones and tin cans that, instead of containing corn, were "filled with powerful explosive material," Gazeta Wyborcza reported.

Une annonce ! Aujourd'hui j'ai envoyé le dernier numéro de #Règle30 édité par Numerama, avec qui je cesse ma collaboration. Je vais prendre du temps pour réfléchir au futur de mon infolettre. Si vous voulez me suivre dans ce projet, vous pouvez vous inscrire par ici : apres-regle30.beehiiv.com

« Depuis plusieurs années, la France connaît une dégradation profonde et structurelle de l’environnement dans lequel la société civile peut s’exprimer et agir, ainsi qu’une régression préoccupante des libertés publiques. »

Man arrested in connection with airports cyber-attacks www.bbc.com/news/article...

So what was one of the main motivators behind the far-right violence in The Hague last weekend? A fake antifa page that’s thought to be linked to the far right that claimed there’d be a counterdemo that no Dutch antifascists actually knew about archive.ph/2025.09.24-0...

This is best story by far about the SIM farm uncovered in New York by Secret Service. The intent of the farm is not, as suggested by other stories, to disrupt Secret Service protection of dignitaries attending the UN or taking out mobile service for all NY but about managing criminal enterprises

Voilà un sujet qui nous tient à cœur avec @khedidjazerouali.bsky.social: la Samaritaine avait installé des caméras camouflées dans des détecteurs de fumée. Mediapart l'avait révélé, la Cnil s'en était saisie. Elle vient de condamner le magasin à payer 100.000 euros. www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...

«The network, we concluded, is made up of at least 90 TikTok accounts - some masquerading as news outlets - which have posted thousands of videos totalling more than 23 million views and 860,000 likes since January. Moldova's population is just 2.4 million.» #Moldova #elections #Russia #infops #EU

Les aéroports de Londres-Heathrow, Berlin-Brandebourg et Bruxelles perturbés par une attaque informatique

C’est une 1e: nous avons documenté une collaboration visible entre Turla et Gamaredon, 2 groupes de hackers liés au FSB, qui jusqu’alors opéraient tjrs en vase clos. Les difficultés en 🇺🇦 forceraient-elles les services russes à tempérer leurs rivalités internes? www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese...

⚠️ @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de is taking 🇩🇪Federal Intelligence Service's use of #spyware to ⚖️ @echr.coe.int. RSF argues that spyware violates journalists’ rights in an inadmissible way & German law makes it too hard to fight surveillance by intel. agencies. www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/pressemittei...

The mystique: Trench-coats, dimly lit parking garages, and furtive handoffs The reality: Lots of spreadsheets and cold calls to people who hate you

Spyware industry pockets EU subsidies while snooping on its citizens www.ftm.eu/articles/spy... Great work by @vaspanagiotopoulos.com showing how EU taxpayer money funds a surveillance industry that sells to authoritarian regimes abroad.

Russian hackers target Polish hospitals and city water supply www.ft.com/content/3e7c...

"The army’s chiefs, who most likely will decide who next leads the country, have met with the [Discord] channel’s organizers and asked them to put forth a potential nominee for interim leader. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

wat "There is increasing concern from U.S. officials that the devices, along with the electronic systems that manage rechargeable batteries, could be seeded with rogue communications components that would allow them to be remotely tampered with on Beijing’s orders." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

On croit rêver : - Hier, le juge administratif suspend le recours préfectoral aux drones à Pau. Car cela porte gravement atteinte aux libertés. - Aujourd’hui, le préfet contourne cette décision de justice en obtenant du Procureur de la République de prendre *la même mesure*… 🫠

10 septembre : la France sous les drones @jeromehourdeaux.bsky.social www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

NEW: A report published by the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social finds that US investors are increasingly funding companies that make commercial spyware, a technology linked to human rights abuses in countries around the world. @vaspanagiotopoulos.com reports for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/us-spy...

Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/t...

👀 Jim Jordan held a House Judiciary Committee hearing on . . . how Europe censors Americans. Nigel Farage came along! Let's just say I have a slightly different view than them. My written and oral testimony are here: ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/h... Here are my concluding paras:

I watched the DSA and OSA "Censorship" Hearing in the House Judiciary Committee today so you don't have to. I have some questions. A 🧵 of my internet lawyer, free speech expert, First Amendment scholar ponderings, to no no one in particular: Why are we here? 1/

New report published today from our team at Recorded Future: “Russian Influence Assets Converge on Moldovan Elections” www.recordedfuture.com/research/rus...