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Alan Neville

@abnev.bsky.social
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Principal Intelligence Analyst @ Symantec. Views are my own etc. keybase.io/abnev

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Mercenary spyware vendor Paragon claims it's "responsible", (unlike NSO Group) But our investigations @citizenlab.ca show Paragon's spyware was abused in Italy 🇮🇹 to target civil society @accessnow.org sent them a letter with questions, and I signed on 👇 www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
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Access Now - Paragon must answer for spyware use against civil society and journalists
Access Now calls on Paragon to answer for the use of its spyware in Italy against journalists, and to address oversight failures.
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Jessica Lyons @jessicalyons.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Typically the Iranians have deployed wipers against targets in critical infrastructure and other organizations," Google threat intelligence group chief analyst John Hultquist told The Register. "We will probably see more of that in Israel and we could see it in the US as well."
theregister.com
Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US
: With Tehran’s military weakened, digital retaliation likely, experts tell The Reg
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The Register @theregister.com · 31/05/2025
Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump
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Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump
'It's a high-stakes intelligence war' he told El Reg exclusive  A mystery whistleblower calling himself GangExposed has exposed key figures behind the Conti and Trickbot ransomware crews, publishing a trove of internal files and naming names.…
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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 27/05/2025
It’s amazing to me that it can take 6 years from the first attack until the trial starts. via @jgreig.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social
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Iranian pleads guilty to launching Baltimore ransomware attack, faces 30 years behind bars
Sina Gholinejad admitted to using the Robbinhood ransomware variant to extort ransom payments from dozens of victims.
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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
NASA simulation for what you'd see while plunging into a black hole: youtu.be/chhcwk4-esM There's actually a lot left to see after passing the event horizon!
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ESET Research @esetresearch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
#ESETresearch has published its latest APT Activity Report, covering October 2024 to March 2025 (Q4 2024–Q1 2025). China-aligned groups like Mustang Panda and DigitalRecyclers continued their espionage campaigns targeting the EU government and maritime sectors. 1/2
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 18/05/2025
Here's how the TM SGNL server, which had access to plaintext chat logs from people like Mike Waltz, got hacked in about 20 minutes www.wired.com/story/how-th... (my first article in @wired.com!)
wired.com
How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes
The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 06/05/2025
Learn about monitoring inauthentic accounts and conducting investigations into Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) in our next Stage Talk on Thursday, 4pm CEST/10am EDT. We're joined by the @doublethinklab.bsky.social team live in our Discord Server discord.gg/FGq4XfYm?eve...
Reads Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns, Bellingcat Stage Talk Thursday 08/05
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muteki @muteki.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Layoffs at CrowdStrike. I’m safe, but if you’re looking for IR consultants I know a bunch of fucking amazing ones that will be looking for jobs 🫠
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 08/05/2025
Socket Security has discovered a malicious Python library that contained a remote access trojan and went undetected for over three years socket.dev/blog/malicio...
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Malicious PyPI Package Targets Discord Developers with Remot...
The Socket Research team investigates a malicious Python package disguised as a Discord error logger that executes remote commands and exfiltrates dat...
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 05/05/2025
I'm analyzing the TM SGNL source code and will publish findings tomorrow. But the for a sneak peak, here's how it seems TeleMessage's system works: There's E2EE between TM SGNL and Signal, but NOT between TM SGNL and archive destinations. TM's archive server can read the chat logs. Stay tuned.
Diagram that shows:
- E2EE chat logs between TM SGNL and Signal
- TM SGNL sends data to archive server using HTTPS API
- Archive server sends data to destinations using SMTP, SFTP, or Microsoft 365
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 01/05/2025
No as a service 
Demo naas.isalman.dev/no Repo github.com/hotheadhacke...
Ever needed a graceful way to say "no"?

This tiny API returns random, generic, creative, and sometimes hilarious rejection reasons perfectly suited for any scenario: personal, professional, student life, dev life, or just because.

Built for humans, excuses, and humor.
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Virus Bulletin @virusbtn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Recorded Future Insikt Group researchers analyse MintsLoader, a malicious loader deployed through multiple infection vectors that commonly deploys second-stage payloads such as GhostWeaver, StealC, and a modified BOINC client. www.recordedfuture.com/research/unc...
Graphic illustrating the MintsLoader attack chain.
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Virus Bulletin @virusbtn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
ESET researchers provide an analysis of Spellbinder, a lateral movement tool for performing adversary-in-the-middle attacks, used by TheWizards, a China-aligned threat actor. www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese...
Graphical illustration of the SLAAC attack carried out by Spellbinder
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Virus Bulletin @virusbtn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Trustwave researchers observed a notable increase in NodeJS-based backdoor deployments across multiple malware campaigns, including KongTuke, Fake CAPTCHA schemes, Mispadu, and Lumma stealers. www.trustwave.com/en-us/resour...
Graph showing KongTuke activities from September 2024 to March 2025
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CyberScoop @cyberscoop.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Security leaders at Mandiant and Google Cloud say nearly every major company has hired or received applications from North Korean nationals working on behalf of the country’s regime. via @mattkapko.com cyberscoop.com/north-korea-...
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North Korean operatives have infiltrated hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
Security leaders at Mandiant and Google Cloud say nearly every major company has hired or received applications from North Korean nationals working on behalf of the country’s regime.
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InfoSec @infosec.skyfleet.blue · 01/05/2025
CVE-2024-10442 (CVSS 10): Zero-Click RCE in Synology DiskStation, PoC Publishes
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CVE-2024-10442 (CVSS 10): Zero-Click RCE in Synology DiskStation, PoC Publishes
CVE-2024-10442 allows unauthenticated RCE on Synology DS1823xs+ via Replication Service flaw. Patch now to avoid exploit risk.
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 01/05/2025
So regarding this behavior: I've confirmed it, and there's more detail than is in the story. Let's go. arstechnica.com/security/202...
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Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that.
Researchers say the behavior amounts to a persistent backdoor.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 30/04/2025
Ako ransomware affiliate gets five years in prison
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ESET Research @esetresearch.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#ESETResearch analyzed the toolset of the China-aligned APT group that we have named #TheWizards. It can move laterally on compromised networks by performing adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks to hijack software updates. www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese... 1/6
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TheWizards APT group uses SLAAC spoofing to perform adversary-in-the-middle attacks
ESET researchers publish an analysis of Spellbinder, a lateral movement tool used to perform adversary-in-the-middle attacks.
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Alan Neville @abnev.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Russia attempting cyber sabotage attacks against Dutch critical infrastructure therecord.media/dutch-mivd-r...
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Russia attempting cyber sabotage attacks against Dutch critical infrastructure
Kremlin-backed hackers have tried sabotage attacks against critical infrastructure in the Netherlands, the country's Military Intelligence and Security Service said in its annual report.
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Volexity @volexity.com · 22/04/2025
@volexity.com #threatintel: Multiple Russian threat actors are using Signal, WhatsApp & a compromised Ukrainian gov email address to impersonate EU officials. These phishing attacks abuse 1st-party Microsoft Entra apps + OAuth to compromise targets. www.volexity.com/blog/2025/04...

#dfir
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Phishing for Codes: Russian Threat Actors Target Microsoft 365 OAuth Workflows
Since early March 2025, Volexity has observed multiple suspected Russian threat actors conducting highly targeted social engineering operations aimed at gaining access to the Microsoft 365 (M365) acco...
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Rocky ❤️
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 17/04/2025
Check Point published a write-up of CVE-2025-24054, an NTLM leak that Microsoft patched last month. The company says the vulnerability is now being exploited in the wild, with one campaign targeting government and private institutions in Poland and Romania. research.checkpoint.com/2025/cve-202...
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CVE-2025-24054, NTLM Exploit in the Wild - Check Point Research
Key Points Introduction NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager) is a suite of authentication protocols developed by Microsoft to verify user identities and protect the integrity and confidentiality of netwo...
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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
After years of the West naming and shaming nation-state hackers I have wondered (and written about) the lack of similar finger pointing back at the US etc. This new shift from China to out western hackers for cyber spying is overall a good thing for transparency. www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/c...
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China swipes at NSA for alleged Asian Winter Games hack
: Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act
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Saher @saffronsec.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My first blog with Proofpoint is live! And we love a good crossover. State-sponsored actors try their hand at ClickFix - the hottest thing in cybercrime. Meet the North Koreans, Iranians, and Russians who are upping their social engineering game www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/thre...
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Around the World in 90 Days: State-Sponsored Actors Try ClickFix | Proofpoint US
Key Findings While primarily a technique affiliated with cybercriminal actors, Proofpoint researchers discovered state-sponsored actors in multiple campaigns using the ClickFix social
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
NEW: In a hearing last week, an NSO Group lawyer said that Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan were among the governments responsible for a 2019 hacking campaign against WhatsApp users. This is the first time representatives of the spyware maker admit who its customers are.
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NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers behind 2019 WhatsApp hacks | TechCrunch
This is the first time representatives for the spyware maker have publicly named its government customers.
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CSOonline @csoonline.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
MITRE’s CVE database was hours from disappearing. CISA saved it at the last minute with a contract extension. Here’s what you need to know. Read Cynthia Brumfield's @metacurity.com news article: www.csoonline.com/article/3963... #InfoSec #ThreatIntel #CVE
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CVE program averts swift end after CISA executes 11-month contract extension
After DHS did not renew its funding contract for reasons unspecified, MITRE’s 25-year-old Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program was slated for an abrupt shutdown on April 16, which would ...
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Sam Sabin @samsabin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
👏 "Active CVE Board members have spent the past year developing a strategy to transition CVE to a dedicated, non-profit foundation." www.thecvefoundation.org/home
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CVE Foundation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program [Bremerton, Washington] – The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term ...
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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...
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US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated, say officials
Conservative critics have long accused the department of helping to censor the American right.
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 16/04/2025
Dark Storm is taking credit for this. cybernews.com/news/breachf...
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BreachForums site is down - and Dark Storm, not the FBI, is taking claim “for fun”
The BreachForums online hacker market is seized yet again, claimed by fellow hacktivst gang the Dark Storm Team, the same group who hacked Elon Musk's X in March.
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 10/04/2025
⚠️ NSO Group is paving a path back Into Trump’s 🇺🇸America. The 🇮🇱Israeli #spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration. Here's my investigation for @wired.com.
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 16/04/2025
www.cnet.com/personal-fin... “Security and Exchange Commission Chairman John Clayton released a lengthy statement yesterday on cybersecurity. Buried about 1,400 words in, you'll find an eyebrow-raising disclosure -- the SEC was apparently hacked in 2016.”
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After breach, SEC says hackers used stolen data to buy stocks
After accessing the Security and Exchange Commission's nonpublic filings, hackers may have used the stolen data to pad their portfolios with tomorrow's hot stocks.
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 16/04/2025
www.wired.com/story/heres-... “A lawsuit over the Trump administration’s infamous Houthi Signal group chat has revealed what steps departments took to preserve the messages—and how little they actually saved.”
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Here’s What Happened to Those SignalGate Messages
A lawsuit over the Trump administration’s infamous Houthi Signal group chat has revealed what steps departments took to preserve the messages—and how little they actually saved.
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
MITRE / CVE is being killed by the Trump Government alecmuffett.com/article/113229 #cve #infosec #mitre #trump
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MITRE / CVE is being killed by the Trump Government
This is incalculable harm to coordination of infosec response; via Brian Krebs: MITRE has announced that its funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and related programs,…
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Alan Neville @abnev.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“Phishing campaign conducted by #APT29, a Russia linked threat group, which is targeting diplomatic entities across Europe.” research.checkpoint.com/2025/apt29-p...
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Renewed APT29 Phishing Campaign Against European Diplomats - Check Point Research
Check Point Research uncovers APT29 targeting European diplomatic entities with phishing attacks spreading malware Grapeloader
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Alan Neville @abnev.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
😂 🔥
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Edmond @edm0nd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I scraped 54k usernames from BreachForums if anyone is into that type of thang github.com/spmedia/CTI-... #cti #threatintel
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GitHub - spmedia/CTI-Stuffs: A collection of CTI stuffs - intel scraped from various sources
A collection of CTI stuffs - intel scraped from various sources - spmedia/CTI-Stuffs
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Alan Neville @abnev.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 15/04/2025
As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A screenshot of an Azure cloud network traffic monitor showing a big in outbound traffic leaving the NLRB system
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BleepingComputer @bleepingcomputer.com · 14/04/2025
American business services giant and government contractor Conduent disclosed today that client data was stolen in a January 2025 cyberattack.
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Govtech giant Conduent confirms client data stolen in January cyberattack
American business services giant and government contractor Conduent disclosed today that client data was stolen in a January 2025 cyberattack.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 10/04/2025
Israeli security firm ClearSky has discovered a Yemeni/Houthi influence campaign operating in Israel and the Gulf states. The campaign has been active since 2019 and only switched to targeting Israeli audiences last year. www.clearskysec.com/houthi-influ...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
open #sre role on my team at Netflix: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... we're gonna be coding a lot this year, tons of events, rad team, good manager pro tip: read the culture memo top to bottom before talking to anyone and assume it's real
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Netflix hiring Site Reliability Engineer L4/L5 - Live Cloud Platform SRE in Los Gatos, CA | LinkedIn
Posted 3:27:09 AM. Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Thomas Roccia :verified: @fr0gger.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025
🤓 Google just dropped A2A, a new protocol for agents to talk to each other. Let me break it down for you 👇 ➡️ A2A = Agent-to-Agent Protocol: It standardizes how agents send tasks, stream updates, share artifacts, and discover each other. ➡️ Agent Card […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 08/04/2025
Despite recent law enforcement arrests, remnants of the loosely associated Scattered Spider group are still active and carrying out multiple spear-phishing operations targeting major companies www.silentpush.com/blog/scatter...
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Scattered Spider: Still Hunting for Victims in 2025
Silent Push has discovered the evolving threat Scattered Spider is still hunting for victims in 2025, targeting brands and services.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 06/04/2025
Captured Ukrainian drones infect Russian operators with malware The malware can: -burn the operator's USB port -prevent them from flashing other drones -reveal their location www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/co... www.forbes.com/sites/vikram...
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Russians Capture Ukrainian Drones Which Infect Their Systems With Malware
A recent video posted to social media suggests that Ukrainian drones are now carrying various malware that is targeting Russian systems.
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