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September 30, 2022

September 30, 2022

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Andrew 🌻 Brandt @threatresearch
Wow! What a story. This was the most gripping spy-vs-spy novel I've read on the bird site, possibly ever. Great work by everyone involved.
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Hindenburg Research @HindenburgRes
Trevor Milton, billionaire founder of $NKLA, is currently on trial for fraud. Shortly after his hydrogen truck company was exposed, an army of hackers and spies started targeting his critics and whistleblowers. Here's what happened & how we turned the tables. (1/x)
7:53 AM ∙ Sep 30, 2022
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New Lazerpig video.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik
Critical cryptographic vulnerabilities found in a popular end-to-end encryption library Matrix. Attacks are possible and demonstrated. This work is among the most impactful security research this year. It shows that designing secure protocols is tough. nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io/static/paper.p…
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1:52 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Ben Stanley @BDStanley
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9:54 PM ∙ Sep 28, 2022
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max seddon @maxseddon
Putin begins his speech. He starts talking about the "votes" to join Russia in Russia-controlled parts of Ukraine. "The people have made their choice [...] this is the will of millions." Thus follows what was called "thunderous applause" in the USSR.
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12:20 PM ∙ Sep 30, 2022
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Joe Helle - Mayor of Hacktown @joehelle
Compromised a domain tonight in the craziest of ways. VNC Server with no authentication -> LastPass vault open in browser -> main DA account in LastPass vault -> $$$
1:15 AM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom
“The Ukraine war has exposed the bankruptcy of an ideologically diverse set of foreign-policy commentators,” writes @jkirchick, “the ‘anti-imperialists’ who justify acts of imperial conquest, and the ‘realists’ who make arguments unmoored from reality”:
theatlantic.comHow the Anti-war Camp Went Intellectually BankruptCritics of U.S. foreign policy from both ends of the ideological spectrum have found common cause in supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
2:48 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Matthew Green @matthew_d_green
Everything about this story is sickening.
reuters.comHow the CIA failed Iranian spies in its secret war with TehranGholamreza Hosseini got caught spying for the CIA in Iran. The story of how he was burned casts light on an epic U.S. intelligence failure.
1:08 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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https://citizenlab.ca/2022/09/statement-on-the-fatal-flaws-found-in-a-defunct-cia-covert-communications-system/

You can see the crappy tradecraft here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110202091917/http://iraniangoalkicks.com/clamping.jar

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Shashank Joshi @shashj
'Russian intelligence will probably seek to adapt its operations to these new conditions. “We consider it highly likely that Russia will turn to the cyber environment over the winter,” explains Supo Director Antti Pelttari...'
supo.fiNational Security Overview: Russian intelligence changes approach | Supo
1:50 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Natasha from Russia 🇷🇺 @natashasrussia
I see the whole Twitter is making fun of how Russian mobilized men are drunks, with no equipment and untrained.
Everyone is laughing but I see it concerning because you can become a victim of your propaganda(I know how it is, I’m a Russian) Let me show you then 🧵
11:31 PM ∙ Sep 28, 2022
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Keith Gessen @keithgessen
I spoke to a number of brilliant people who study war, and the ending of wars in particular, to see how they view the possible outcomes in Ukraine. What I learned was not, on the whole, encouraging.
newyorker.comHow the War in Ukraine Might EndIn recent years, a small group of scholars has focussed on war-termination theory. They see reason to fear the possible outcomes in Ukraine.
2:32 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Paul Gessler @PaulGessler
An indictment filed Wednesday charges two Maryland doctors with conspiracy and unlawful disclosure of medical information. U.S. Army Dr. Jamie Lee Henry and Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist Dr. Anna Gabrielian are accused of attempting to provide info to the Russian government.
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3:40 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Victoire Rio @riovictoire
What role did @facebook play in the Rohingya genocide? Today, we’re releasing a lot more details on what was happening on - and with - Facebook in the years leading up to the Myanmar military clearance operations. 👉 rh.myanmarinternet.info
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4:20 AM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Kim Zetter @KimZetter
Squirrels have competition
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ABC News @abcnews
Thousands without power after drone food delivery crashes into powerlines in a 'first' https://t.co/2usdD5Hv7p
4:19 AM ∙ Sep 30, 2022
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kylie brakeman @deadeyebrakeman
If you’re bored, they’re bored: take your cat to six flags
6:49 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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fredesque @FredTaming
hard to imagine a more embarrassing death than being beaten with a candlestick in a library by someone named colonel mustard
2:20 PM ∙ Sep 26, 2022
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Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @IanColdwater
this website is free
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10:16 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Happy windows exchange 0day, everybody!

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Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog
🚨 There’s reports emerging that a new zero day exists in Microsoft Exchange, and is being actively exploited in the wild 🚨 I can confirm significant numbers of Exchange servers have been backdoored - including a honeypot. Thread to track issue follows:
8:15 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog
Starting a new thread for two Exchange zero days being exploited in the wild. Calling it ProxyNotShell for details explained within, aka CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082. #ProxyNotShell
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8:21 AM ∙ Sep 30, 2022
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blackorbird @blackorbird
Exchange 0day exploit in wild. #APT gteltsc.vn/blog/canh-bao-…
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4:21 PM ∙ Sep 29, 2022
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Yousur Al-Hlou @YousurAlhlou
"We were given an order to kill everyone we see." Russian soldiers made calls from the battlefield near Bucha to relatives back home. The Ukrainian government was listening. @MashaFroliak and I received thousands of those candid and damning intercepts.
nytimes.com‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in DisarrayIn phone calls to friends and relatives at home, Russian soldiers gave damning insider accounts of battlefield failures and civilian executions, excoriating their leaders just weeks into the campaign to take Kyiv.
7:33 PM ∙ Sep 28, 2022
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