May 7, 2022
FSB counterintelligence is a bit of an institutional embarrassment these days, quite frankly.
Quick reminder that Tencent is a huge company that owns all the games. Like, all of them. If there’s a gaming company you know of, tencent owns it.
The Glasshouse Session of May 6th, 2022 has been uploaded to YouTube already.
Privacy info.
An older post, but interesting
https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-do-you-spy-when-world-shut-downTalk on: “data-driven cyber security, great power competition in technology, values, and national security @RUSI_org.”
You can now watch back @NCSC Dr Ian Levy’s important speech on cyber, technology, geopolitics and values on our website. rusi.org/events/open-to…
Reflections on “dark arts” of statecraft
Quite a neat little implementation of the “dd to /proc/${pid}/mem” trick
https://github.com/arget13/DDexecThis will be very interesting.
This is a controller for a passive backdoor, BPFDoor, used by a China-based threat we track as Red Menshen. If you want to learn more, @Cyb3rBilly and I will be talking about Red Menshen and other CN threats to telecoms environments @WEareTROOPERS in June.
Details here:
https://www.troopers.de/troopers22/talks/7cv8pz/Administrivia:
I will be somewhat unavailable for this week, May 8-14. The news letter will be lighter than usual, or maybe I’ll do a digest every other day. Normal operations will resume on the 14th, so please times with me in these unusually trying bears. --gq