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Coveware report: "[Ransomware] decryption tools are worse than they’ve ever been" www.coveware.com/blog/2025/4/...

Actual question: If Trump *were* purposeful saboteur in the pay of Russia, China, NKorea, Iran, or others who might profit by US self-destruction, how would his policies differ from what they have actually been? I am explicitly *not* saying that is motive behind his policies. But the effects...

Romania's communications watchdog says Russia's Doppelganger group has created a network of sites and accounts mimicking Romanian news outlets to run misinformation ahead of the country's presidential election over the weekend www.ancom.ro/avertizare-p...

Democrats need to make it abundantly clear that this money is going to be seized immediately by the DOJ and not returned, and countries sanctioned for bribing the head of state.

Russia drops to a record-low position in RSF's World Press Freedom Index, ranking 171st out of 180 countries "This deterioration reflects the regime’s increasingly repressive use of judicial tools to silence independent journalism," Jeanne Cavelier of @rsf.org states.

Ukrainian National Extradited from Spain to Face Conspiracy to Use Ransomware Charge www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

Trump National Security Advisor longevity: Mike Flynn 24 days, H.R. McMaster 414, John Bolton 520, Robert O'Brien 490 - Mike Waltz 101?

Kennedy's thoughts and actions make a lot more sense when you realize he doesn't believe in a foundational scientific principle.

I guess the crypto-world has a new bad guy in eXch -almost all funds are linked to criminal money laundering -taunts law enforcement on a regular basis -tries to play the victim and privacy activist -refuses to block hacker funds on the grounds of "privacy" www.elliptic.co/blog/the-ris...

Rançongiciel: comment "JohnSmith", "Boba" ou encore "Svetka" ont tenté d'extorquer leurs victimes en passant par des accès RDP www.zdnet.fr/actualites/r...

It turns out that if you type any concocted phrase into the search bar with the word "meaning" attached at the end, AI Overview will confidently respond with a purported explanation of an imagined idiomatic expression.

In Samara, an 18yo man from Stavropol sentenced to 18 months restriction for disseminating in November 2023 a trojaned VPN installer which stole users’ logins which he sold online.

Die AfD ist alternativer als vermutet... Sie folgt Maos klassischem revolutionären Slogan von 1966: "Zerschmettere die vier Alten". Das Ergebnis würden in Deutschland vielleicht nicht Millionen Tote sein. Aber unrevolutionär würde es auch nicht werden... @investigativ.bsky.social @noafd.bsky.social

A new cryptocurrency exchange named Grinex is believed to be a rebrand of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange whose domains were seized by the U.S. authorities and an admin arrested.

The Kyiv Independent's Natalia Yermak speaks to James Rubin, a former diplomat who led the Global Engagement Center in 2022-2024, about how deeply the Russian propaganda influences U.S. politics and why the center's closure "disarms" the country in the information war.

La diplomatie française passe à l'attribution avec ces accusations de cyberattaques visant le GRU. www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-...

At the International Data Fusion 2025 Conference on machine learning and AI, Russian ideologist Dugin told the audience that artificial intelligence is "a successive stage in the formation of Satanic civilization" and that it's "the Antichrist himself."

Российский спутник "Космос-2553", по мнению американских властей участвующий в программе разработки космического оружия с ядерными компонентами, больше не функционирует. Сообщается о странностях в движении спутника, что может свидетельствовать о его неисправности.

David Shimer: “The current approach favors Russia across the board—making concession after concession on Ukraine, dismantling our key soft power tools and weakening our alliance network across Europe, which historically has helped the US deal with Russian aggression.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

The heavens were smiling on us on Friday AM! Scott Jacobson, a terrific photographer, captured a smiley face conjunction of the moon (left), Venus (top right) and Saturday (bottom right) from Maryland. The right photo is rotated to make the smiley face easier to see. More info at cwg.live

I am so tired of trying, and largely failing to explain folks that NATO membership or strong security guarantees for Ukraine are essential to restrain not just Moscow but also Kyiv. Either that, or it will be Israel in steroids in the middle of Europe, and I don't think most Europeans would like it

New: US cuts to foreign aid are impacting Ukraine's cybersecurity. Dozens of people have had to stop work protecting the country from Russian hackers & shipments of vital cyber equipment have stopped, according to people familiar with the situation: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Olga Skabeeva was delighted with Trump's "peace proposal." Even Russian propagandists are stunned by everything the Trump administration is willing to do for Russia. This and more in my latest article, linked below ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lvr...

The BreachForums drama will live on forever...

🚨Breached[.]fi, breached already? Shocker!

Nine false or misleading statements in Trump's latest anti-Zelensky rant.

Google’s M-Trends 2025 report is out - data from Mandiant’s incident response engagements. Direct PDF link to avoid the sales pitch wall: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/m-trends-2025-en.pdf Thread about my main observations: - Firstly, no mention of generative AI or GenAI again […]

The Trump 'peace' plan for #Ukraine is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Zelenskyy reminds Trump of his own 2018 Crimea Declaration that rejects Russian annexation and pledges support for Ukraine's territorial integrity. This comes in response to the US-proposed peace plan that includes recognizing Crimea as Russian.

BreachForums, a cybercriminal forum, has returned on a new domain after being down for several days. In a new post, the BreachForums admins say its previous forum was seized. "Due to the seizure of the breachforums[.st] infrastructure, we are treating all previous user data as potentially exposed."

Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) 2025 is out. Still a great resource of real world data: www.verizon.com/business/res...

Statement by Secretary Pompeo – Crimea Declaration, 25 July 2018 ru.usembassy.gov/statement-by...

Live stream of the FIRST CTI 2025 security conference www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pSj...

Putin has signed the law ratifying the strategic partnership agreement between Russia and Iran. Unlike the agreement with North Korea, this document doesn't have a mutual obligation for military support in case of military aggression against one of the parties.

Check your kids’ devices to make sure they’re not in a Signal chat with Pete Hegseth. Talk to them about the dangers of sharing national security secrets online.