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June 30, 2025

June 30, 2025

June 30, 2025

Today, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center is proud to announce the release of RIFT, an open-source tool designed to assist malware analysts automate the identification of attacker-written code within Rust binaries. https://t.co/1CkVjvsd8a

— Microsoft Threat Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 27, 2025


New @TheDFIRReport

Hide Your RDP: Password Spray Leads to RansomHub Deploymenthttps://t.co/y5gLgWEGFB

— Justin Elze (@HackingLZ) June 30, 2025

https://thedfirreport.com/2025/06/30/hide-your-rdp-password-spray-leads-to-ransomhub-deployment/


This is probably true. We tend to focus on what we can count, even when the things we can't may matter more. Iran has been months away from the bomb for almost twenty years. Politics have always been more important than technical factors. https://t.co/HkeiKWmz1S

— Dr. Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) June 29, 2025

A lot of technical assessments of Iran’s nuclear program feel rushed. There’s an overreliance on fuel cycle basics and projections built on major unknowns while overlooking domestic factors eg institutional disruption, procurement challenges, and acute paranoia.

— Nicole Grajewski (@NicoleGrajewski) June 29, 2025

(I can’t get a threadreader link for this thread because it is restricted)


If S.B. 690 becomes law, private companies could legally use spy tools like trap-and-trace and pen registers with zero notice to users. This is dragnet surveillance, not “commercial business.” https://t.co/QWKeJ1lqjk

— EFF (@EFF) June 29, 2025


***BREAKING***

China Builds New Large Jet-Powered Ekranoplan (WIG)https://t.co/B3b7QOtJ7a

— H I Sutton (@CovertShores) June 30, 2025


An interesting perspective https://t.co/3v5zQHwKHN

— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) June 30, 2025


British Army Political Warfare Field Units: An Overview by Lee Richards

A full record on the use of political/psychological warfare field units by the British Army is a conspicuous omission in the history of Political Warfare in the Second World War.


1/ Tens of gigabytes of secret data on Russia's strategic electronic warfare systems has been hacked by the pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK). They say that Russia's EW shield is "not just fragile - it's full of holes" due to multiple flaws and vulnerabilities. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/nw8n9Zp5tc

— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) June 30, 2025

Thread by @ChrisO_wiki on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

@ChrisO_wiki: 1/ Tens of gigabytes of secret data on Russia's strategic electronic warfare systems has been hacked by the pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK). They say that Russia's EW shield is "not just fr...…


The People’s Liberation Army Cyberspace Force | The Cyberspace Force of the PLA is China’s newest military branch, launched on 19 April 2024. https://t.co/nFdtlB2Cjv @GreyDynamics

— 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) (@780thC) June 30, 2025

The People's Liberation Army Cyberspace Force

Established in 2024, the People's Liberation Army Cyberspace Force merges cyber and electronic warfare to disrupt, deter, and dominate in future conflicts.


This paper is about ants though not entomology but robotics.

Hacking the Colony: On the Disruptive Effect of Misleading Pheromone and How to Defend Against It, Aswale A., López A., Ammartayakun A., Pinciroli C., 2022

Open access, available via regular channels.…

— Kağan Kongar (@KaganKongar) June 30, 2025


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