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September 24, 2025

September 24, 2025

September 24, 2025

A very special between two nerds…

Between Two Nerds: How the US can win the cyber war - Risky Business Media


OPSEC fails that beggar belief.

People are asking how the OSINT nerds found the guy that drained the cancer bro.

Well, it's very shrimple

The shitty malware sent all the stolen data to a Telegram the scammers made.

We connected to the Telegram channel using the same credentials that were inside of the shitty…

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) September 22, 2025


Iran cyber espionage targeting European telco, defence, aviation companies

https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/nimbus-manticore-deploys-new-malware-targeting-europe/


This story is nonsense.

It's just normal criminal enterprise for sending SMS spam and anonymous messages. Somebody used this service to send SMS threats to some politicians, so the Secret Service traced it back here. They are describing it as some special political threat ("35… https://t.co/2v4F7PP5EF

— Robert Graham (@ErrataRob) September 23, 2025

Want to understand the tradecraft behind that? Check out our Tradecraft Sunday episode 19 (from 4 months ago) explaining this in more detail, here: https://t.co/hVdaPXzDi2 https://t.co/UhIOo7ZZbI

— Spy Collection (@SpyCollection1) September 24, 2025

I wrote a (rather technobabble-laced) thing a few years ago about something similar in the UK. Grey box on the right explains what they actually are https://t.co/luo33rwr4L

— Gareth Corfield (@GazTheJourno) September 23, 2025


https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/selfdriving_car_fooled_with_mirrors/

Paper


asked my mom if she took tylenol while she was pregnant with me

she said only when it was a really bad hangover

— thoughtcrime (@thoughtcrime___) September 23, 2025


i can't believe this shit actually works pic.twitter.com/tmMcLTbnlU

— Cameron!! (@cameronmattis) September 23, 2025


...almost makes up for the Run key persistence https://t.co/U9Xj0PHYmA pic.twitter.com/dgShtzaNWc

— J⩜⃝mie Williams (@jamieantisocial) September 24, 2025


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