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July 8, 2025

July 8, 2025

July 8, 2025

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ #US: A Homeland Security operation took place at the MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, described in leaked Army documents as a "show of presence."

The site was labelled a hub of "historic lawlessness" and "the founding location of MS-13." Internal briefings compared the park toโ€ฆ pic.twitter.com/qorD9NFzAs

โ€” POPULAR FRONT (@PopularFront_) July 8, 2025


๐ŸšจโšกUNUSUAL
Afghanistan has released a promotional video aimed at attracting Americans to visit โ€” in a wild and unexpected way.

The message says:
"After liberating our homeland from you, now youโ€™re welcome to come as tourists or guests ๐Ÿ˜" pic.twitter.com/VvXaoWm3fb

โ€” RussiaNews ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ (@mog_russEN) July 7, 2025


Spider Web Trail... If Check Pointโ€™s latest findings on Scattered Spider are accurate, then the 26 newly registered domains in the past 30 days are deeply concerning. Stay vigilant! ๐Ÿซฃhttps://t.co/ydlcYOjmj1 pic.twitter.com/iMHUhODy4A

โ€” Steven Lim (@0x534c) July 8, 2025


Thanks to @riskybusiness @tomatospy and @TheGruq for featuring my paper in their episode today! Totally agree on the points - to be clear, strategic obstacles can be a good thing, for economic security and national security. ;) https://t.co/bS7uCo7I94

โ€” Winnona ๐Ÿ’พ (@__winn) July 7, 2025


The developers behind a custom firmware used to convert consumer drones for Russian military use in Ukraine have reported a cyberattack on their infrastructure https://t.co/wEuHafZ5zK

โ€” The Record From Recorded Future News (@TheRecord_Media) July 7, 2025

A cyber attack disrupted the operation of a Russian network of volunteer-run service centers that jailbreak commercial DJI drones making them fit for warfighting. Although no one took credit for this hack it looks like a highly targeted sabotage operationhttps://t.co/hFP3aLp55Y

โ€” Oleg Shakirov (@shakirov2036) July 8, 2025


July 3: Italian police arrested ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ man Xu Zewei, aka Zavier Xu and David Xu, who is wanted by the US authorities over industrial espionage which targeted projects including efforts to develop a COVID vaccine.

Xu was picked up on an arrest warrant issued on Nov 2, 2023 by theโ€ฆ pic.twitter.com/3dKMImmtR8

โ€” Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) July 7, 2025


When Identity is just a Vibe: a Bitchat MITM https://t.co/jDa4pm3Hff @jack pic.twitter.com/63xF93m0pc

โ€” Supernetworks, Inc (@spr_networks) July 8, 2025


Swedish security police "Sร„PO" who are responsible for the safety of officials, leaked their traning program via training app Strava. This is just adding on to a long list of security scandals in Sweden. https://t.co/Stw3XeGXnf

โ€” Def Mon (@DefMon3) July 8, 2025


In our last blog post, our colleague Gianluca shares the story of a lucky discovery: a bug initially spotted during a routine assessment turned out to be a high impact vulnerability in Microsoft Graph API โ€” earning a $3,000 bounty.https://t.co/F38RmgTUAk

โ€” HN Security (@hnsec) July 8, 2025


when you accidentally publish your GPT prompt rather than the reply ๐Ÿ˜ฌ pic.twitter.com/t4zcdtfTow

โ€” Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh) July 7, 2025
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