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June 25, 2024

June 25, 2024

June 25, 2024

Today, Julian Assange made a plea deal with the US government. Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge for his role in a major breach of classified material, receiving a 62-month sentence already served, allowing him to return to Australia. Note: The plea deal must be…

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) June 24, 2024

Julian Assange leaves jail on his way to enter plea deal with the U.S.

The WikiLeaks founder has been held in a British prison for the last five years and fought extradition to the U.S. He is expected to return to Australia.


Access equities—and loss of—are priced-in to any serious operation, particularly those requiring persistent and fluid action on objectives. Even w/established deconfliction channels, determining intent and impact is almost impossible.

Many ops fly under the radar so get good? https://t.co/UcONEXSore

— InstaCyber @instacyber@infosec.exchange (@instacyber) June 25, 2024


Inside the trial of a former chief convicted of attempted espionage https://t.co/JDG8JwYCp3

— Michael Smith (@MickWSmith) June 25, 2024


Folk carrying on the I Hunt Pineapples tradition🫡 https://t.co/reApQfICbY

— Dr. Wesley McGrew (@McGrewSecurity) June 25, 2024


In March 1946, SIS's Chief Major-General Sir Stewart Menzies estimated there were as many as "25,000 French agents working with S.I.S." and the Free 🇫🇷 service.

Added to this were the 🇵🇱 networks in Northern France, which, for 1943 alone, had helped produce over 1k reports. https://t.co/pvLHIhGKes pic.twitter.com/kJthXSu3Kd

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) June 25, 2024


https://t.co/gqH2wPg1Kn A documentary just went live. This is about one of the founders of #Anonymous: @GreggHoush @CyberNews Let's go back to the very begining. #hacktivism #hacking #lulz

— ₲ⱧØ₴₮ɆӾØĐɄ₴.ØⱤ₲ (@ExodusGhost) June 25, 2024


175 is hexadecimal AF pic.twitter.com/bs2r3SBXWa

— LaurieWired (@lauriewired) June 25, 2024


Here is a list of actively used 0-days reported by Kaspersky over the past 10 years. A couple of them were found on VirusTotal, the rest were caught in attacks on us and our B2C/B2B customers. I'm very proud of the work we do. pic.twitter.com/4UN9U1NCzp

— Boris Larin (@oct0xor) June 24, 2024


Speaking with @BBCRadio4, CyberCX UK Chair @ciaranmartinoxf said that in healthcare we are constantly learning that "criminals don't have to take out an operating theatre to disrupt a hospital, instead they can take out testing capability or hospital administration systems." pic.twitter.com/47f7JECOHm

— CyberCX (@CyberCX) June 25, 2024


In this box of matches, there is one specific match that has been specially adapted to be able to write secret messages. Isn’t it absolutely fascinating when spy gear that is the stuff of movies turns out to be real?! ⁦@I_W_M⁩ pic.twitter.com/AR7HdC1V7y

— Dr Sarah-Louise Miller 🇺🇦 (@SarahLouMiller) December 29, 2023


More evidence that it is much harder than the hype suggests to fool voters with deepfakes and disinformation 👇

From ⁦@guardian⁩ https://t.co/84ZbKyGfCs

— Ciaran Martin (@ciaranmartinoxf) June 25, 2024


Series on code static analysis using CodeQL
Credits Sylwia Budzynska (@GHSecurityLab)

"CodeQL zero to hero"

Part 1: https://t.co/NuKGxWGGA5
Part 2: https://t.co/5ZqCV2Q8v7
Part 3: https://t.co/0FQ1uGqNbN#codeql pic.twitter.com/0IpSUYFDIe

— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) June 25, 2024


Just come out of a talk on Chinese espionage tradecraft:

Targeting people who seem miserable at work, craving social status, and feeling undervalued - and who have access to research material

😬

And yes, he explicitly mentioned the vulnerability of academics!! 😳

— Rory Cormac (@RoryCormac) June 25, 2024

Haha. That’s literally the MO if everyone. The trick isn’t finding ppl to recruit. It’s fining people worth recruiting

— thaddeus e. grugq thegrugq@infosec.exchange (@thegrugq) June 25, 2024
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